Overview Claude Lanzmann is an 84-year-old French journalist, political commentator and film director of the monumental, masterful nine-and-a-half hour Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985). His memoir, The Patagonian Hare, is his first book. “The guillotine – and capital punishment and other diverse methods of dispensing death more generally – have been the abiding obsessions of my life. It began very early. I must have been no more than ten years old…’ Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann’s […]

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