Czesław Borowy – an inhabitant of Treblinka, observed cars on the railroad spur, which were about to be pushed into the death camp

Henryk Gawkowski – a Polish train driver from Małkinia, pushing the cars with victims from the railroad spur in Treblinka into the death camp

Jimmy Glasberg – a DP for Lanzmann, accompanied him in Poland

Barbara Janicka – a Polish interpreter assisting Lanzmann in Chełmno, Treblinka and Sobibór

Claude Lanzmann – a French intellectual and filmmaker, director of Shoah and four other films edited from interviews for Shoah

Filip Müller – a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau for three years, a witness to the final moments of victims before their deaths in the gas chamber, and an author of a published memoir

Jan Piwoński – a retired railroad worker at the Sobibór station, a guide for Lanzmann in the former camp and the surrounding area

Simcha Rotem – fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, filmed at the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum in Israel next to a model of the Warsaw Ghetto

Szymon Srebrnik – a survivor of the Kulmhof camp (in Chełmno nad Nerem), as a 13-year old was singing for the guards on the boat on the Ner, filmed on September 8, 1978 during a parish fair in front of the church in Chełmno, on the river and in the Rzuchowski Forest

Rudolf Vrba – a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, worked at Kanada there (a warehouse of possessions stolen from victims), an escapee from the camp and a co-author of a widely distributed report about the camp (with Alfred Wetzler)

Yitzhak Zuckerman – a fighter in the Jewish Fighting Organization, after the war set up the Ghetto