SHOAH

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is more than nine hours long; but long before you understand what is present in this visual account of Auschwitz you understand what is missing from all the others. The others—all the sickening
photographs of the living corpses and the dead corpses that the Nazis made out of Europe’s Jews—all the images of that inferno that has become canonical in our culture, that has, as if to complete the curse, become even cliched— all have failed at ...