Shoah; No. 1; Part 2

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Series
Shoah
Episode Number
No. 1
Segment
Part 2
Producing Organization
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Contributing Organization
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
AAPB ID
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Description
Episode Description
Part One of Claude Lanzmann's 1985 documentary film about the Holocaust. Roger Rosenblatt explains Claude Lanzmann's creation of "Shoah." In different languages, with subtitles, survivors of Chelmno, Vilna, Ponari, Sobibor, and Treblinka answer questions about gas vans, people who were killed, seeing corpses of family members, and when burial of corpses ended and burning began. Mrs. Pyetyera and Pan Filipowicz answer questions about the town of Auschwitz and Jewish people who lived there during the war. Pan Falborski talks about Jewish people in Kolo. Czeslaw Borowi talks about what it was like to live outside of Treblinka during the war: the atmosphere, people's thoughts and feelings, what he saw happen. Townspeople answer questions regarding what they knew Borowi heard and saw, and what they saw and how they helped the Jews. Townspeople also talk about Jews and trains, weather, and escapes. Abraham Bomba talks about how people not in the war acted day to day, and a train conductor answers questions regarding what he heard during the holocaust. Jan Piwonsky talks about splitting on the tracks to Sobibor and Chem. Henrik Gawkowaky, Abraham Bomba, and Richard Glazar talk about the train ride, and give detailed accounts of arrival at concentration camps. Survivors of Treblinka talk about arriving at Treblinka, the Jewish people who killed themselves, making sense of what they were seeing and having to do to survive. Inge Deutschkron talks about being a Jew in hiding. A former SS Unterscharfuhrer answers questions about trains arriving in Treblinka with corpses of people who had killed themselves, or just died; and how there weren't enough gas chambers to keep up with the amount of Jewish people arriving. Filip Muller talks about his experience, and more crematoriums being built, with undressing rooms and ovens. Franz Suchomel answers questions about new gas chambers built in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzac and who built them. A man answers questions about a framed picture of Josef Oberhauser hanging on a restaurant wall. Roger Rosenblatt interviews Claude Lanzmann about his childhood, the war, and the making of Shoah. Bulk of program is in other languages with English subtitles.
Broadcast Date
1987
Created Date
1987
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:02:31.422
Credits
Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Producing Organization: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-b6c1b79c8dc (Filename)
Format: U-matic
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Citations
Chicago: “Shoah; No. 1; Part 2,” 1987, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-p26pz52s6r.
MLA: “Shoah; No. 1; Part 2.” 1987. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-p26pz52s6r>.
APA: Shoah; No. 1; Part 2. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-p26pz52s6r