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Documentarian Claude Lanzmann ("Shoah") delivers another stunning perspective on the Holocaust, centered upon his 1975 interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, last of the Jewish "Council of Elders" tasked by the Third Reich with the administration of the infamous Terezin ghetto. Did he and his fellows strive to pull the best from an impossible situation, or were they mere collaborationists? Draw your own conclusions from these remarkable insights. 4 hrs. on two discs. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.