Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts. No results match this search term. Check spelling and try again. Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating and interviewing survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for the nine-and-a-half-hour film SHOAH released in Lanzmann on October 11, , and have since been carrying out the painstaking work necessary to reconstruct and preserve the films, which consist of hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.
It weaves together extraordinary testimonies to describe the step-by-step machinery implemented to destroy European Jewry. Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a Pole who ran a pharmacy within the confines of the Krakow ghetto, refusing the Germans' offer to let him relocate to another part of the city.
He aided Jews by providing free medication and allowing the pharmacy to be used as a meeting place for resisters. They spend most of the interview in different parts of the Plac Zgody now Plac Bohakerow Getta , from which Jews were deported from the Krakow ghetto.
They begin walking. Pankiewicz tells Lanzmann that in he got the order to run a pharmacy within the ghetto. The Germans first required him to prove that he was not Jewish. From the window of his pharmacy he could see all the deportations from Plac Zgody and the horrible treatment meted out to the Jews. Lanzmann asks Pankiewicz to describe exactly what he saw.
They are standing on Targowa street, the street where the Jews were gathered for deportation, and where Pankiewics's pharmacy was situated. White screen with some audio from to The first slate says "Warsaw" but the interview is clearly in Krakow.
