Claude Lanzmann, whose production Shoah was called the greatest single film ever made about the Holocaust, has died at the age of 92.
He died on Thursday morning at a hospital in Paris, according to Gallimard, the publishing house for his autobiography.
In a tribute, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said he was “single-handedly responsible for keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive in the hearts and minds of so many around the world.”
Mr Lanzmann’s 1985 French documentary film Shoah, which was nine-and-a-half hours long and took 11 years to make, was lauded for containing no archival footage or musical score.
