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Shoah: Four Sisters

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. He has just completed a series of four new films, built around four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself unexpectedly and improbably alive after war’s end.

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  • Claude Lanzmann

    Claude Lanzmann

    Self - Interviewer

  • Paula Biren

    Paula Biren

    Self

  • Ruth Elias

    Ruth Elias

    Self

  • Ada Lichtman

    Ada Lichtman

    Self

  • Hanna Marton

    Hanna Marton

    Self

Overview

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. He has just completed a series of four new films, built around four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself unexpectedly and improbably alive after war’s end.

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