November 27, 2025: 100 years of Claude Lanzmann news
A hundred years ago, Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) was born, filmmaker, writer, and journalist.
In spring 1985, Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) presented his monumental film Shoah for the first time in Paris. Eleven years of preparation, research, filming and editing, for this work of more than nine hours, during which Lanzmann has increasingly closely identified the theme of his film: the Final Solution, the systematic extermination of the Jews of Europe. His monumental work, Shoah, has profoundly transformed the way history is transmitted, not through archives but through living words.
On the occasion of this centenary, the Shoah Memorial will inaugurate its next exhibition: "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann – Les enregistrements inédits, which will open on December 11, 2025.
The recordings that are the subject of the exhibition, presented for the first time at the same time in Paris and Berlin, date from the years preceding the beginning of the filming and document the unrecorded interviews that Claude Lanzmann and his assistants conducted during their research trips with executors, victims, and witnesses.
These recordings, which represent a total of more than 220 hours, and whose exhibition offers excerpts, were donated to the Jewish Museum in Berlin by ACFL – Association Claude and Felix Lanzmann and added in 2023, with Shoah, to the UNESCO World Heritage Register.
