Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m
In this gripping counterpoint to wartime narratives, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Lerner recounts the uprising at Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland—the only successful such rebellion during the war. Drawn from interviews conducted in 1979 during the making of Shoah. New York Film Festival 2001. In person: Claude Lanzmann on Saturday, February 26!
In person: Claude Lanzmann on Saturday, February 26!
“Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m is comprised primarily of an interview Lanzmann conducted in 1979 with a Holocaust survivor named Yehuda Lerner about the uprising at Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland, the only successful Jewish-prisoner insurrection of the war. This film isn’t just an epilogue to Shoah, it’s a rebuttal to the dominant mythology of Jewish acquiescence and martyrdom, and as such, a critique of turning history into the comforts of fiction. It’s historiography with a vengeance.” —Manohla Dargis, Film Comment July/August 2001
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