Claude Lanzmann — The Man Behind the Film “Shoah”

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The Academy-Award nominated film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah by the British filmmaker and journalist Adam Benzine, explores the 12-year journey undertaken by Lanzmann to make his 1985 film Shoah, a nine-and-a-half-hour-long documentary which is today considered among the most important Holocaust works in existence.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ December 4-7, watch the film Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, December 6 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Adam Benzine is an internationally renowned British-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, based in Toronto. As a filmmaker, he is known for producing and directing the Academy Award-nominated HBO documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, which played at film festivals and aired on broadcasters across the world; and for producing and directing ground-breaking hybrid thriller The Curve. As a journalist, he has a 20-year career writing for newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the National Post, as well as publications such as The Walrus, The Independent, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Time Out.

Corinna Coulmas was born in Hamburg to a Greek father and a German mother; studied theology, philosophy, and sociology in Hamburg, Paris, Jerusalem, and Florence. She earned her doctorate from Paris IV, Sorbonne. She worked in theater in Hamburg and Baden-Baden, and as a reader for Rowohlt publishers in Hamburg and Gallimard in Paris. For ten years, she was Claude Lanzmann‘s assistant on the film Shoah. She then collaborated with Saul Friedländer (UCLA) about the impact of the Shoah on younger generations and taught kabbalah at the Center for Jewish Studies (Sorbonne). She founded the Éditions la Métamorphose in 2012.

Dr. Luke Berryman is the Founder of The Ninth Candle, a nonprofit organization that works with schools across the United States to improve Holocaust education. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Boston University and King’s College London. His Ph.D. thesis was on the use of classical music in Nazi propaganda. He has since written about the Holocaust and antisemitism for USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and other newspapers, and for pedagogy journals including Education Week and Chalkbeat. He is the author of Resisting Nazism (Bloomsbury, 2026).

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