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2010 | 48 min | Documentary
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Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures
2001 | 95 min | Documentary
SOBIBÓR, 14 OCTOBRE 1943, 16 HEURES recounts the Sobibór uprising through the unforgettable testimony of survivor Yehuda Lerner.
Shoah
1985 | 566 min | Documentary
SHOAH turns testimony into a cinematic monument—Claude Lanzmann’s radical work on extermination, memory, and what remains unseen.
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