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...Manuel Köppen Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor (2001) and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation (2004) are contrasting cinematic documentaries that return the viewer to German concentration camps in Poland. While Lanzmann insists on the pathos of the primary witness, whose words, like the places...

... the context of Operation Reinhardt. The aim of this murder campaign was the annihilation of the Jews living in occupied Poland. As well as being involved in mass shootings in villages and deportations to Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, the police battalion was used in Operation Harvest...

... a detailed account of the extermination camps in Poland, as observed by the narrator roughly between the spring of 1943, when he fi rst visits Sobibor, Auschwitz, and other camps, to the “death marches” that preceded the Soviet entry into Auschwitz in January 1945. Littell’s choice of locations...

... observes of a list of casualties in Sobibor that its “Kreuzform ist ein Ergebnis der Statistik” (cross form is a result of statistics).6 And, in the text on Mauthausen, he presents his aesthetic consideration of lists of the dead as a conscious choice: “Sie ernst nehmend als ästhetisches Phä- nomen...

... to be deported. Anne Frank was among the internees: “78 percent of Dutch Jews—nearly 101,000 people—were deported from there to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor extermination camps. Of those only about 5,000 survived.”2 In comparison with other camps, especially with the death camps, the conditions...