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10 Facts About Claude Lanzmann

1.

Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah .

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Claude Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette and Armand Claude Lanzmann.

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Claude Lanzmann's family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from Eastern Europe.

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4.

Claude Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.

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Claude Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Claude Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is a nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust.

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Claude Lanzmann disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity.

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8.

Claude Lanzmann divorced a second time and married Dominique Petithory in 1995.

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Claude Lanzmann was the father of Angelique Lanzmann, born in 1950, Sara Siegel, born in 1991, and Felix Lanzmann who died of cancer in 2017, aged 23.

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Claude Lanzmann died on 5 July 2018 at his Paris home, after having been ill for several days.

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