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A Visitor from the Living (1997)

A Visitor from the Living poster
Original title
Un vivant qui passe
Directed by
Claude Lanzmann
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 05m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary features an interview with Maurice Rossel, a Red Cross delegate who visited Auschwitz in 1943 and Theresienstadt in 1944. He describes what he saw and how the Nazis presented the camps to the outside world.

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What happens

Un vivant qui passe est un film français de Claude Lanzmann sorti en 1997. Filmé pendant le tournage du film Shoah, il s'agit du témoignage de Maurice Rossel, délégué du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, qui put se rendre en 1943 au camp d'extermination d'Auschwitz et en 1944 à Theresienstadt, présenté comme un camp modèle par les nazis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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