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By the waters, by the waters of Chelmno, There he shuffled with ankles in chains. By the waters, by the ashen waters of the Narew, There his captors demanded songs and his tormentors mirth. There he sang the songs in a foreign land. But his heart wept. Karl Plank, ‘Srebnik’ Claude Lanzmann begins his magisterial Shoah with the story of Simon Srebnik.2 The film's opening frames show the forty-seven year-old Srebnik in a small boat on the Narew River. As he passes along the water, we hear him softly sing a folk song from his past. Lanzmann's introduction, however, preempts any pastoral quality that the scene may suggest. His words identify Srebnik as one of only two survivors of the death-camp Chelmno. The trip along the Narew returns him to the site of his internment. The return reenacts his ordeal: the SS, fond of...
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