Shoah: The Unseen Interviews(2011)

Shoah: The Unseen Interviews Synopsis

This film, produced by the Museum’s Spielberg Film Archive staff, features 55 minutes of previously unseen interviews from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection. SHOAH: The Unseen Interviews includes the testimony of Abraham Bomba, a barber in the Treblinka killing center, who escaped, was smuggled back into the ghetto, and tried to warn friends, who refused to believe what was happening; details of American responses to the Holocaust from Peter Bergson, who tried to rally American Jews and the US government to act sooner to save the Jews in Europe; and Ruth Elias’s harrowing tale of survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Shoah: The Unseen Interviews (2011) is a documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann, released on September 13, 2011 with a runtime of 55m. It stars Claude Lanzmann, Abraham Bomba, Peter Bergson and Ruth Elias.