11 years of research, 350 hours of total footage against forgetting: With SHOAH (Berlinale 1985), French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann created the most comprehensive document about the extermination of European Jews in the 20th century. The Goethe-Institut Toronto and its partners the Miles Nadal JCC Toronto, the Jewish Film Society, Toronto Jewish Film Festival, POV Magazine, and Hot Docs are screening SHOAH on 27 January 2020, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Join us at the institute between 9.30am and 5pm to watch the multi-hour film or part of it. Toronto author Bernice Eisenstein will be available between noon and 2pm in our library for conversations.
If you are interested in more background: In 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps (and the 30th anniversary of his film), director Lanzmann talked about his monumental investigation of the Shoah and his cinematic treatment of its horrors with French documentary channel Toute l'Histoire (45min., in French):
