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Shoah: Four Sisters

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S1 E4 · The Noah's Ark - Hanna Marton

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

About Shoah: Four Sisters

Shoah: Four Sisters is a documentary TV series that premiered on ARTE on January 23, 2018. It has 1 season and 4 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 4 "The Noah's Ark - Hanna Marton", aired on January 30, 2018.

Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who, for that reason alone, but for many others also, deserve to be inscribed forever into the memory of humankind. What they have in common, beside the specific horrors to which each of them were subjected, is a searingly sharp, almost-physical intelligence, which rejects all pretence or faulty reasoning. In a word, idealism.

Documentary

Last updated September 21, 2026

Episodes

4 episodes · 1 season

Season 1

2018 · 4 episodes · Last episode: 8 years ago

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E4

4. The Noah's Ark - Hanna Marton

Finale 8 years ago

In 1944, when the Nazis started deporting Jews from Hungary, Rudolf Kastner – a Zionist leader of the Aide and Rescue Committee – negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to secure a train boarded by 1684 Jews to leave for a neutral country in exchange for payment. Hanna Marton was one of the passengers. Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, although she replies in Hebrew.
E3

3. Baluty - Paula Biren

8 years ago

There are still archives, diaries and even some photos of the Lodz ghetto, but very few actual witness accounts from survivors. Paula Biren's is all the more exceptional, with her having been part of the ghetto's Jewish women police at the time. Her sharp eye for detail as well as her dazzling intelligence underscores her incredible testimony. Of the hundred ghettos that dotted the Polish countryside, the one in Lodz had existed for the longest. It was ruled with an iron fist by the president of the Jewish council of elders, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, known as "King Chaim" – a man convinced he could save part of the community by turning them into manpower to serve the Germans.
E2

2. The Merry Flea - Ada Lichtman

8 years ago

Ada Lichtman was faced with absolute horror from the start: the day the Germans invaded Poland, all the men in Wieliczka – a little town near Kracow where she lived – were rounded up by the Germans, driven to a nearby forest and executed. Ada Lichthman explains how, after being transported to Sobibór, one of her tasks included washing and dressing dolls stolen from Jewish children on the transport that could then be passed on to Nazi officers. It’s a small anecdote among many, but one that succinctly locates the trauma of reliving the bizarre meld of cruelty and irrationality that these [Four Sisters] films examine with unshowy virtuosity.
E1

1. The Hippocratic Oath - Ruth Elias

8 years ago

Ruth Elias was 17 when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939. After three years of hiding on a farm, the family was denounced and deported in to the Theresienstadt camp in April 1942. During the winter of 1943, Ruth found out she was pregnant – she then learned that she would be part of a convoy to Auschwitz. During a selection in June 1944 – when she was 8 months pregnant – she managed to be part of 1000 women sent to clear rubble at a refinery that had been bombed in Hamburg.

Cast & crew

Created by Claude Lanzmann

Ruth Elias

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Ada Lichtman

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Paula Biren

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Hanna Marton

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Shoah: Four Sisters FAQ

Will there be new episodes of Shoah: Four Sisters?

Shoah: Four Sisters has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on January 30, 2018.

When did the latest episode of Shoah: Four Sisters come out?

The most recent episode of Shoah: Four Sisters, Season 1 Episode 4 "The Noah's Ark - Hanna Marton", aired on January 30, 2018.

How many seasons of Shoah: Four Sisters are there?

Shoah: Four Sisters has 1 season with 4 episodes in total.

When did Shoah: Four Sisters first air?

Shoah: Four Sisters first aired on ARTE on January 23, 2018.

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Show info

Status: Finished
First aired: January 23, 2018
Last aired: January 30, 2018
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
Network: ARTE
Created by: Claude Lanzmann
Episode length: 273 min
Language: French
Country: FR

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