![]() ![]() ![]() The Jews of this town were forced into the synagogue and burned alive (it's not clear whether she is talking about the Jews from Mielec or the Jews from the other town). The Judenrat confiscated the Jews' valuables and gave them to the Germans in exchange for a promise that they would not have to leave Mielic but the next day they were rounded up and taken to another town. Lichtman's husband was killed when a large stone was dropped on his head (she said previously that she married after the German invasion, but here she says she got married in May, 1939). She and her new husband had planned to flee to the Soviet Union but found that it was impossible. Lichtman married her fiance and moved to a town called Mielic (?). They brought mentally ill people from an asylum to the town and mistreated them. She saw with her own eyes how the Germans harrassed and mistreated the Jews every day, including beard shaving. A few days later Lichtman went to Krakow to live in the Jewish quarter. Lichtman and the other women managed to bring their men back to town for burial but they were harrassed by the Polish peasants. Lichtman witnessed her father being shot in a wood, along with many other men of the town. The Germans immediately took the men for forced labor. When the Germans came the family was living in a small town near Krakow. Lichtman was 13 years old when she moved to Krakow with her parents. After several seconds Lanzmann begins the interview. The camera sometimes focuses on Lichtman's husband. Two dolls sit on a table in front of them and Lichtman sews clothes on another one. FILM ID 3270 - Camera Rolls #1-4- 01:00:18 to 01:34:00 Ada Lichtman and her husband sit on a couch. At Lanzmann's urging, Lichtman sews doll clothes during the interview this is a duty she used to perform in Sobibor. She talks about Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner and relates a story about a Dutch transport where the prisoners were given postcards to write home before they were murdered. She was chosen to do the SS laundry in Sobibor and remembers cleaning dolls and toys seized from a transport of children for the SS families. Īda (Eda) Lichtman talks about her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, her father's murder, and her transport to Sobibor. She now lives in France and publishes about the Five Senses. She studied theology, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne and Hebrew language and Jewish culture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and INALCO in Paris. įrom 1974 to 1984, Corinna Coulmas was the assistant director to Claude Lanzmann for his film "Shoah." She was born in Hamburg in 1948. He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. His family went into hiding during World War II. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. ![]()
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