Language:
French
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Témoigner; entre histoire et mémoire
Angaben zur Quelle:
107 (2010) 52-46
Keywords:
Lanzmann, Claude.
;
Rossel, Maurice
;
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
;
Jews
Abstract:
Discusses the problematic relationship between image and truth as presented by Claude Lanzmann in "Un vivant qui passe" (1997). The film is based on an interview conducted in 1979 with the Swiss doctor Maurice Rossel, who headed the group from the International Committee of the Red Cross that visited Theresienstadt in June 1944, after which he wrote a positive report on conditions there. When Lanzmann confronted him with the truth about the camp - the large number of deaths, the starvation, and the deportations, all masked by the Nazis - Rossel insisted on the veracity of the testimony of what he saw, which was a model ghetto. Revealing his deeply rooted antisemitism, he blamed the Jews for their passivity and their failure to reveal the truth to him. Turning the film into a moral lesson, Lanzmann juxtaposes Rossel's vision with his own vision, which includes the point of view of the Jews who perished to such a degree that they become incarnated in it.
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