One of a series of programmes transmitted this week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945.
This acclaimed film represents director/producer Claude Lanzmann 's monumental stand against the annihilation of memory. Entirely eschewing the use of archive film and photographs, Lanzmann records the voices and the faces of the witnesses to Europe's supreme atrocity - the Holocaust. The story begins with the return to Poland of Simon Srebnik - one of only two survivors of the 400,000 Jews taken to be gassed at Chelmno.
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Shoah - the Second Era tomorrow at 9.00pm Editors Claude Lanzmann and Ziva Postec
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Shoah 9.00pm BBC2
Over a period of ten years, film-maker Claude Lanzmann scoured the world for witnesses of the Holocaust to tell their stories in this massive testament, being shown tonight and tomorrow. Shoah is the Hebrew word for annihilation, and in nearly nine hours of film Lanzmann records the details of the systematic ; annihilation of European Jews. The experience of the ghettos and the concentration camps is recalled by the survivors, the observers and even the perpetrators.
Shoah is part of BBC2's Remember season, which marks the 50th anniversary of the freeing of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Richard Dimbleby's recollection of the liberation of Belsen, first shown in 1965, is repeated on Monday, and Timewatch on Wednesday tells the story of three children of camp: survivors who reveal how the legacy of the Holocaust has affected their lives.

Shoah concludes tomorrow evening at 9.00pm.