Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno

Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno 

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 Some women central to the production of"Shoa" (1985) include Hebrew interpreter, Francine Kaufmann; Polish interpreter, Barbra Janicka; Yiddish interpreter, Mrs. Apflebaum; assistant directors, Corinna Coulmas and Irena Steinfeldt; editors, Ziva Postec and Anna Ruiz; and assistant editor, Yael Perlov. Leib Garfunkel (January 1, 1896 - September 7, 1976), also known as Leyb Gorfinkel, was an advocate, journalist, and political figure. He was a widely respected figure in Kovno's Jewish community. Before the war, he was general secretary of the Jewish National Council of Lithuanian Jewry, a member of the Kovno municipal council, a member of the Lithuanian parliament, and first editor of Die Yiddishe Stimme (The Jewish Voice) and Dos Wort (The Word). A Socialist-Zionist by ideology, he was a delegate to several interwar Zionist congresses. During the Ghetto period, he served as deputy chairman of the Jewish Council. After liberation, he became chairman of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Italy. He emigrated to Israel where he wrote one of the most important books on the Kovno Ghetto,"Jewish Kovno at the Time of the Destruction" published in Hebrew in Jerusalem in 1959. He died in Israel in 1976. [Tory, Avraham, Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University, 1990, pg. 12.] 

Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno