Claude Lanzmann – giving witness

    

 

Claude Lanzmann, the film maker has died, best known for his nine-and-a-half-hour epic Holocaust documentary Shoah. He filmed gruelling interviews with concentration camp survivors and pretended to be pro-Nazi in order to film the guilty.

Born 27 November 1925 8.15 pm Bois Colombes, France, into a Jewish family, he joined the French communist resistance when he was 18 during the occupation of France, fighting alongside his brother and father, and narrowly escaping the Gestapo. His mother was arrested several times but managed to escape. After the war, he studied philosophy in Germany, became a journalist and covered East Germany for Le Monde. Part of the French intellectual left elite he was friends with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (with whom he had a long relationship in the 1950s) and François Mitterrand.

He had an entertaining 5th house Sagittarius Sun with a public-career Taurus Moon in the 10th; and a confident Pluto opposition Jupiter. But what dominates his chart is a hidden, intense, creative and healing Water Grand Trine of a probing 12th house Pluto trine Uranus trine Saturn Mars in Scorpio in his 4th – the scars of his childhood ran very deep.

His Mercury in Sagittarius was also in his 5th trine Neptune and square Uranus so he’d be compelled to get his story across. He also had a Yod of Uranus sextile Venus Jupiter inconjunct Neptune. An apex Neptune initially can be emotionally disorganised and escapist with deep feelings of unworthiness and needs periods of seclusion to re-centre. Once on track, it can release all of Neptune’s healing and creative powers.

His imaginative 5th and 7th Harmonics are strong, as is ‘obsessive dream’ 11th and leaving-a-legacy-for-history 17th. But his most heavily aspect harmonic is the 13th which is associated with upheaval, change and rebirth, exploration, genius and breaking with the orthodox.

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3 thoughts on “Claude Lanzmann – giving witness

  1. Yes, Marjorie thank you for your informative website. You are a real gem. As a novice astrologer, I love reading your astrological news. I look forward to it every day. Cecilia

  2. Thank you for this Marjorie, I follow your page regularly, and always find your interpretations spot on! I’ve been erecting charts by hand since 1975, in 1981 returning to the US I purchased a Commodore computer (cassette driven) using a matrix program and a dot matrix printer – of course I’ve upgraded 🙂 Incidentally my late parents were Holocaust survivors, and we had very few left after the Shoah. My mother was German and my father was Polish. The past 30 years I have researched the fate of my paternal grandparents, my aunts and uncles and have been successful in locating many documents for most, including their transport papers from Berlin to Auschwitz. I have them in a document book, so my sons will know who they were and what became of them Now I will check my 5th, 7th and 11 th harmonics (thanks to you.) I suspect this has been my obsession as well. Instead or films and books I channel (obsession) into my work as rabbi (25 years). Thank you for a most enlightening website.

    • Suzanne, I also started doing charts by hand, what a bore with books of time zones etc, an arithmetical nightmare. Bless computers. Your family history is tragic and researching/keeping records is so important for you and your children and others. History no matter how grim shouldn’t be lost.
      Thanks for your kind comments and Cecilia

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