Photo Gallery 'Only Life Counts'
French director and writer Claude Lanzmann's memoir begins and ends with death, but celebrates life. In an interview with Spiegel, Lanzmann discusses the book, "Shoah," and his relationship with Sartre.
Dinner in Paris with French existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre and the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, with whom Lanzmann had a long-lasting affair. The three met on Dec. 10, 1964, the same day Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize, which he declined.
The guard house at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. In his 1985 film "Shoah," Lanzmann interviews Polish villagers who witnessed the trains filled with Jews and other victims arriving at the camp.
Foto: KATARINA STOLTZ/ REUTERS
Lanzmann with his mother, Pauline Lanzmann, in 1928. She was later interrogated by the Nazis.
Lanzmann and his father, Armand Lanzmann, who was a French veteran of World War I. The photo was taken in 1944, at the time Lanzmann was active in the French resistence.
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