Photographed Sites
Chełmno nad Nerem – a village in the Greater Poland where the Kulmhof death camp was located. Jews were killed in mobile gas vans. Lanzmann’s crew filmed on the Ner river, in front of the Nativity of Virgin Mary church and inside it, in the yard of the former peasants’ cooperative, on the road from Chełmno to the Rzuchowski Forest and on a clearing there
Treblinka – a village on the partially dismantled railroad from Ostrołęka to Siedlce. From a spur in Treblinka cars with victims were pushed into the nearby eponymous death camp. Jimmy Glasberg filmed from the tender and through the open door of the moving Ty2 locomotive, captured the arrival of the train at the Treblinka station, an interview with Henryk Gawkowski standing on the tender of an immobile train, interviews with inhabitants of Treblinka, Poniatowo and Wólka Okrąglik, panoramas of the former camp, and a speeding train on the bridge over Bug
Sobibór – a village near Włodawa with the death camp located in front of the train station. In Shoah, we watch pans from a demolished fire tower, handheld shots following Lanzmann, Barbara Janicka and Jan Piwoński as well as wide shots and close-ups shot on a tripod
Auschwitz-Birkenau – the camp synonymous with the Holocaust, consisting of three main parts and numerous subcamps. The crew filmed at the Museum (Auschwitz I and Birkenau), in the town of Oświęcim (the main square and the train station) and in the village of Brzezinka (a viaduct over the tracks, the Old Jewish Ramp, the road along the barbed-wire fence). The film contains B-roll to interviews conducted elsewhere
Warsaw – B-roll to interviews with a host of witnesses: Jan Karski (Wola district), Simcha Rotem and Yitzhak Zuckerman (Muranów, Centrum), historian Raul Hilberg (Jewish cemetery) and Franz Grassler (from the roof of Intraco skyscraper in Muranów)