Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust [All-Region]
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DVD: Region Code 0.0Audio: English (Unknown); German (Unknown); Polish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Full Screen, Import, NTSC
Running Time: 566 unknown-units
DVD Reviews of Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust [All-Region]
DVD Review: A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep, with Misconceptions and Biases: Corrections Provided
Summary: 2 Stars
This newly-reissued work includes interviews with Jewish sonderkommando survivors of Auschwitz, Polish peasants, Jan Karski (the legendary Polish Underground courier who vainly tried to warn the world about the Holocaust), Holocaust historian Raul Hillberg, a German official at Treblinka, and others.
Lanzmann should have examined fewer topics, and done so more thoroughly and objectively. He used only 9.5 hours out of 350 hours of taping, making one wonder what he left out. Intentionally or not, his work comes across as anti-Polish. Students of the Holocaust deserve better, and I now provide some context, a few of the necessary corrections, and books for further study from solely Jewish sources. From there, read my reviews. [I originally provided direct links. These, for some reason, have been removed by Amazon's software. So I have replaced the ellipses with the titles of the books themselves.]
The Polish peasants interviewed by Lanzmann exhibit a "Jews owned everything" mindset. In fact, there were many wealthy Jews and, even with the formal and informal discriminatory policies enacted to reverse Jewish economic dominance, the average Jew remained wealthier than the average Pole. See: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN POLAND, 1919-1939. In Poland, most peasants lived in poverty, and were stuck in it because the next-higher economic niche (the shopkeepers, tailors, shoemakers, etc.) was largely pre-occupied by Jews. This (rather than simple prejudice against, or jealousy, of Jewish successes) explains frequent Polish peasant resentments against Jews. Also, the employer-employee, seller-buyer, and lender-borrower relations are partly adversarial in nature. When there are different ethno-religious groups on each side of the divide, this will naturally generate friction between groups.
One interviewed German tries to relativize German conduct. In fact, despite the fact that anti-Semitism existed in countless nations since time immemorial, it was only in Germany (Haman excepted) that it ever developed into a never-before-seen effort to exterminate the Jews. Also, the sources and course of anti-Jewish policies in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, and those in prewar Poland, were entirely different. See: THE JEWISH WAR FRONT.
Poles are portrayed as generally laughing at Jewish deaths, and mocking Jews with the you-will-die gesture. Against both misrepresentations, see: AM I A MURDERER? TESTAMENT OF A JEWISH GHETTO POLICEMAN.
As for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the conduct of the Polish Blue Police is incorrectly conflated with that of the collaborationist Ukrainian police. For the truth, see: MARTYRS AND FIGHTERS (by Friedman). Also, mention is made of some Poles turning-in Jews who had fled after the Uprising, but not the circumstances behind it. Besides imposing the automatic death penalty for the slightest assistance to individual Jews, the Germans had created draconian collective terror against the Polish population of Warsaw for any semblance of assistance to, or connection with, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some Poles made life-or-death decisions to turn Jews in rather than risk large groups of Poles shot by the Germans in reprisal for the Germans killed by Jews during the Uprising. See: MURANOWSKA 7: THE WARSAW GHETTO RISING.
Finally, Lanzmann's analysis is so Judeocentric that it is completely sanitized of any reference to Polish suffering. Did you know that Poles lived in daily fear of their lives, under near-starvation conditions, during the German occupation? Did you know that 3 million Polish gentiles (including about half of all educated Poles) were murdered by the Germans? There's much more: See the Peczkis Listmania: FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST...
For further analysis of Lanzmann, see: CLAUDE LANZMANN'S SHOAH.
DVD Review: Pain-stakingly informative documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Shoah is a pain-stakingly informative documentary told from the point of view of survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators. Without showing any footage or images from the 1930s or 40s, Lanzmann is able to get to the details that other documentaries fail to take into account. Meant to be watched in 2 viewings, I watched it in 4 and was still completely compelled.
This particular box set is the Korean edition, but because there are subtitles and English language settings, it is a better purchase than spending upwards of $120.
DVD Review: Preventing the Past
Summary: 5 Stars
A South Korean production DVD doco is an impressive classic work of a world history.
It is definitely not an entertaining film but educative, witnessing the developing of "civilised" anti-Semitism.
To a viewer's strong opinion, screening its exserts either as a part of studying or just for broadening mind, fifteen minutes daily at home, would prevent young people, in a particular case, the European pupils from a deep shock as it was noticed in the Auschwitz Museum at the end of their in-fly international excursion to Auschwitz, the former concentration camp near Oswiencim, Poland.
Regrettably to the Holocaust deniers - de-facto terrorist supporters, Auschwitz as the Museum is still existing and attracting tourists from round a globe.
DVD Review: Shoah
Summary: 5 Stars
This Korean product is an excellent buy, and there are no problems with the quality of the picture or audio transfer. This is one of the important Holocaust documentaries that should not be missed.DVD Review: Outstanding, and the best I've seen in video
Summary: 5 Stars
This Lenten season, I've taken up the topic of the Holocaust for a fuller review than the stuff that generally comes out on PBS (though I do seem to recall them running this very film at one time or another). Without any actual photographs or film clips from the 1940's, Lanzmann gives us the best portrait through the oral histories that I've yet to encounter in the visual media. It was a bit annoying at times to wait for the interpreter to translate languages such as Polish into French, but the German part had substantial impact, since I claim to "speak German" and wish to study it more. I've been through the whole film as in the 4-disc set, and have started doing the separate discs again. Especially interesting to me was the extensive coverage of central and eastern European rail systems, with the fine assortments of how they looked in 1985. I want to take another trip to that part of the world and see what it's like today (e.g., is there still such use of horses in Poland?).
What gets me the most, I think, is that my overall impression of the way Europeans live is as a much more earnest, sincere and authentic style than some of the phoniness we put up with in America, but then they got into all of this, didn't they? Mass delusion, persuasion and compulsion seem possible anywhere among humanity.
Description of Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust [All-Region]
SHOAH is a magical film about the most barbaric act of the 20th century. Previous commentaries on the Holocaust, with its ravished skeletons and corpses, have left us shaken, but now for the first time, we experience it in our heads, in our flesh. Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution-the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH renders the step-by-step machinery of extermination: the minutiae of timetables and finances, the logistics of herding victims into the gas chambers and disposing of the corpses afterward, the bureaucratic procedures which expedited the killing of millions of people without mentioning the words "killing" or "people". Through haunted landscapes and human voice, the past comes brilliantly alive. SHOAH is a heroic endeavor to humanize the inhuman, to tell the untellable. It is an immensely disturbing, even shattering experience, yet in its solemnity and beauty not a morbid or disheartening one. There are few works of art which leave one with such a deep appreciation for the preciousness and meaning of life. *** This officially licensed 4-DVD set from South Korean is in English, German, Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish, and French with optional English or Korean subtitles. Fullscreen with Dolby Digital Sound; NTSC "ALL" regions worldwide (Region 0).Genres DVDs
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