About the book: 2016 / "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann is a nine-hour documentary about the Holocaust, consisting of several dozen interviews with its victims and perpetrators, Sonderkommando workers and members of the Resistance, ordinary servants of concentration camps and serene peasants who lived next door. Like the film, the book that compiles all of these interviews is one of the most compelling documentary accounts of the extermination of Jews during World War II, but above all, it is an exploration of the very possibility of remembering and bearing witness to a historical catastrophe..