''The Last of the Unjust'' (original French title:''Le Dernier des injustes'') is a 2013 French documentary film directed by
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film '' Shoah'' (1985).
Early life
Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette () and Armand Lanzmann. ...
that centres on the activities of Rabbi
Benjamin Murmelstein in the
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination ca ...
, during
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
References
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Hájková, Anna, The Last of the Self-Righteous: Claude Lanzmann’s version of Benjamin Murmelstein,histoire@politique, September 2014
3. Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (2017), "Benjamin Murmelstein, a Man from the "Town 'As If'": A Discussion of Claude Lanzmann's Film the Last of the Unjust (France/Austria, 2013)", Holocaust Studies, A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 464–482.
4. Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (2019), "The Role of the Judenräte in Serving Nazi Racial Policy: a Discussion of Claude Lanzmann’s film ‘Last of the unjust’", Slil: a Journal of History, Cinema and Television, pp. 72-98, peer-reviewed (Heb.).
5. Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (2020), "Through the Director’s Lens: Claude Lanzmann’s Oeuvre: Commemorating the First Anniversary of his Passing",
Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA), Antisemitism Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 143–168.
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2013 films
2013 documentary films
French documentary films
Documentary films about the Holocaust
Films directed by Claude Lanzmann
Theresienstadt Ghetto
2010s French films
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