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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/movies/shoah-four-sisters-review.html?module=inline

Movie Review: "Shoah: Four Sisters"

(New York Times) Ben Kenigsberg - "Shoah: Four Sisters" by Claude Lanzmann consists of four short features taken from interviews he shot in the 1970s for his landmark film "Shoah" (1985), each showcasing the testimony of a different female Holocaust survivor. The deaths of family members, improbable escapes, the hardship of life in ghettos and camps, underscore the horror and, at times, the grim absurdity of surviving extermination. The subject of the segment "The Merry Flea," Ada Lichtman, from Poland, recalls how she was forced to clean dolls taken from Jewish children to prepare them for Germans to give to their own offspring. "It's unbelievable, dressing dolls in a death camp," Lanzmann says to her. She replies, "It's unbelievable being in a death camp."

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