The Karski Report (2010)
Claude Lanzmann interviews Polish resistance fighter, Jan Karski, who details his 1942 meeting with FDR and his efforts to make the President understand the devastation at the Nazi concentration camps.
The extent world leaders knew about the atrocities at places like Auschwitz and chose not to act is shameful.
A Visitor from the Living (1999)
In 1944, Maurice Rossel inspected the Theresienstadt concentration camp for the Red Cross and wrote a favorable report concerning conditions at the camp.
Rossel defends his report to Claude Lanzmann saying he could only report what he saw. When Lanzmann asks if he spoke with any of the Jews living there, he admits he did not and astonishingly reveals his report was based solely on what he was told by German officials.
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Claude Lanzmann’s account of the uprising at the Sobibór concentration camp in October 1943 reminds us the Holocaust victims did not simply resign themselves to their fates, but, unfortunately, the majority of these attempts to stand up to their oppressors were met with swift retribution.