In a preview of Claude Lanzmann's centenary celebrations, Fayard is reissuing Shoah in the Œuvres Libres collection, which features some of the greatest names in French and foreign literature.
This new edition includes an afterword by Dominique Lanzmann and letters of support for the inclusion of Shoah in the UNESCO Memory of the World.
List of personalities who have written a letter in support of the inclusion of Shoah in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register:
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture,
Yehuda Bauer, Advisor to Yad Vashem, Israel,
Jean-Michel Blanquer, French Minister of Education,
Frédéric Bonnaud, Director General, Cinémathèque française,
Frédéric Crahay, Director, Auschwitz Foundation, Brussels, Belgium,
Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, Cannes Film Festival,
Saul Friedländer, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA,
Jean-Michel Frodon, Saint Andrews University, Scotland,
Francis Kalifat, for the CRIF,
Serge Klarsfeld,
Beate Klarsfeld,
Jack Lang, President of the Institut du Monde Arabe,
Joachim-Felix Leonhard, Historian, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany,
Béatrice de Pastre, Director of Collections, CNC,
Leah Pisar, President of the Aladdin Project,
Éric de Rothschild, President of Mémorial de la Shoah,
David de Rothschild, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah,
Piotr Setkiewicz for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum,
Stephen Smith, USC Shoah Foundation,
Serge Toubiana for Unifrance Cinéma and TV Worldwide,
Dr. Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, President of Unifrance Cinéma and TV Worldwide. Susanne Zepp-Zwirner for the Selma Stern Center, Berlin.