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Director Claude Lanzmann, 92, died this morning in Paris: Gallimard, the publishing house of his autobiography, told him. Lanzmann was especially famous for having made Shoah a 1985 documentary of nearly ten hours and shot in Poland. Holocaust tells the story of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War, through interviews with survivors, former SS and local populations. Lanzmann was born in Paris in 1925, son of Jewish parents from Eastern Europe in France. At 17, he joined the French Resistance and, in the following years, opposed the Franco-Algerian war. He was a companion of Simone de Beauvoir and directed the political paper for many years Modern Times founded among others by Jean-Paul Sartre
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