Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker whose most renown work Shoah showcases 9 hours and 30 minutes of first person testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators of the Holocaust. The film took 11 years to produce and over 350 hours of raw footage was recorded over the span of this time. This raw footage along with transcripts has been made available by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (see the second column).

This page contains the following:

• A clip of Claude Lanzmann discussing why he did not use archives for him film
• A link to the USHMM's archive of material from the making of Shoah
• A clip of his interview with historian Raul Hilberg where he analyzes a train schedule created during the Holocaust
• An Archive of the Catastrophe by Jennifer Cazenave where she analyzes the outtakes from Shoah to reexamine the film
• A talk given in Fall of 2020 by Dr. Erin McGlothlin which also compares the outtake footage and transcripts available in the USHMM's Shoah archives to the film

The lack of historical footage in Shoah has been noted in many reviews of the film. The following interview clip features Claude Lanzmann discussing why he did not use archives.