Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto

Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto 

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title"Le lièvre de Patagoni" (The Patagonian Hare). 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. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah From 1974 to 1984, Corinna Coulmas was the assistant director to Claude Lanzmann for his film"Shoah" She was born in Hamburg in 1948. She studied theology, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne and Hebrew language and Jewish culture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and INALCO in Paris. She now lives in France and publishes about the Five Senses. http://www.corinna-coulmas.eu/english/home-page.html Hersh Smolar (1905-1993) was born in Zambrów, Poland. From a young age, he became involved in revolutionary activities, especially with Yiddish-speaking Communist groups in Moscow. Smolar served as a Comintern agent in Poland from 1928 to 1939; twice arrested, he spent six years in prison. After World War II began, he fled to Bialystok and became editor of a Communist newspaper. He remained in the Soviet Union when Germany attacked in 1941, becoming a leading member of the resistance group in the Minsk ghetto and operating a partisan group in Belorussian forests. His wartime memoirs,"Fun Minsker get" "From the Minsk Ghett"], were published in Moscow in 1946. Smolar returned to Poland after the war where he held key positions in the Jewish community and as editor of a Yiddish newspaper. He published an editorial in 1956 that exposed the extent of the liquidation of Soviet Yiddish cultural institutions from 1948 to 1952. Unhappy with anti-Jewish sentiments in Poland, Smolar emigrated to Israel in 1971, where he continued to publish comprehensive sources on Jewish political and cultural activities in the Soviet Union and Poland. 

Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto