Auschwitz survivors throughout the world are grieving the death of the great witness to history and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who repeatedly focussed the world’s attention on the crimes of the Holocaust.

Speaking in Berlin, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:

"Through his images, Claude Lanzmann has given a voice to all of those people who were silenced and murdered in the blackness of the Shoah in the German concentration camps. His films are films against remaining silent, against repressing and forgetting. But they also stand as indictments against the world of the willing helpers and the indifference of the people who passively stood by in silence and undertook nothing whilst their Jewish fellow citizens were persecuted and murdered. And as witnesses to history they are urgently needed in the world of today."