Shoah (film) - Part 58/59

"Shoah (1985)" Directed by: Claude Lanzmann

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Shoah
• Holocaust
• Israel
• Judaism
• Nazi
• Germany
• Extermination
• Auschwitz
• Treblinka
• WWII
• Hitler
• Himmler
• Yad
• Vashem
• Claude
• Lanzmann

[jrozainc]

After viewing all 59 episodes, this only confirmes that a belief in a higher power, is what gave most hope, for the majority that perished, that hope and believe was shattered in terror and dispair. I have lost all hope and faith in all humans, in all religions of the world.

[dovie2blue]

@jrozainc I know, the first time I watched this I felt disbelief that God could allow this kind of horror to happen. Surely he loved his people Israel more than this! To have them faithfully live their lives and then be starved, gassed, burned? For what? It is not the religions so much that I mourned for, but my naivete' to think that God would not allow suffering in the world, even catastrophic suffering on a huge scale. This film made me mature, in a sad, grim way.

[lamenzies]

@benz500r Of course they didn;t because they couldn't: Jews were marked out for immediate extermination, whereas the Poles would have followed after a period of slavery. I can't see how Jews hiding Poles would have helped the Poles' chances any.

[Omgirrl]

After a great deal of internal debating with the facts and their historical incredulity, I have come to believe that the pivotal question is not 'Where was god", but "Where was man". All of this could have been prevented or stopped and it wasn't. It was a test for all of humanity, and we failed miserably. That it continues to happen in various incarnations, Darfur or under Stalin for example, is an indictor that racism is alive and well. Sad that we have learned so little.

[desireejoyorozco]

there was good and bad everywhere in europe then,bad ofcourse the nazis and there "friends"that also came from all over europe.and then the good,even good germans who risked there lives,poles,bulgarians,dutch,f­rench.....all of it.there was good in all those states that tryed.and some lost there lives in attempt to help.

[BlackCountryPuddler]

Irena Sendler......

[benz500r]

It is sad that two groups, Poles and Jews lived side by side for centuries. Suddenly, one group got exterminated and the other one got to live on. That Polish existance was not that ordinary but remember that for any help provided to Jewish people Poles paid with their lives. That "law" was enacted because Germans knew how interconnected the two groups were. Despite that, many Poles helped Jews and paid for that with their lives. On the other hand, not to many Jews suffered for Poles.

[benz500r]

I have a feeling that people that he describes as bad Poles that wanted to grab them, probably helped him. How would they escape in those rags if there were so many people around that really wanted to get them. We are talking about historical times and making a James Bond hero out of that speaker does not help.

[wyssling]

Well, .. Lanzmann shows the people the way they are, think, react - but they stay individuals, so nothing is generalized. See this, the same :

journeyman.tv/58441/documentar­ies/documentaries.html

[angelamwatts]

To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go. To right, the unrightable wrong. To be... better far than you are. To try when your arms are too weary. To reach the unreachable star. this is my quest to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To be willing to give when there's no more to give...to be willing to die so that honor and justice may live!