Jacques Lanzmann
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Jacques Lanzmann was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc.
Jacques Lanzmann, 1981
Claude Lanzmann
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Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah, which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and perpetra
Jacques Lanzmann
…he, his mother and his siblings, pretended to be Moroccan Arabs to escape persecution by the Vichy regime. In 1943, Lanzmann and his elder brother Claude (later a noted documentary-maker) joined the Communist resistance. Jacques was taken captive by the Germans and was due to be executed by firing squad…
Lanzmann in 2014
Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser meeting Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Lanzmann (first from left) in Cairo, 1967