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Righteous Anger Fuels ‘Auschwitz’
There is a fierce anger at the core of Ruth Linn\’s work, the anger of a woman who suddenly and irrefutably discovers that the story she has been told by her Israeli teachers, Israeli society and Israeli culture from childhood onward regarding the Holocaust is but a partial narrative.
Shoah Book Brings Museum Experience
Michael Berenbaum, a first-rate scholar and writer, who was founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has produced, in effect, a traveling museum, or in barely more than two score pages, a traveling museum exhibit.
Hollywood, History and the Holocaust
The process of changing Nazi history in films and television actually began some time ago in films and television. From Chaplin\’s \”The Great Dictator\” to \”Hogan\’s Heroes,\” from Ernst Lubitsch\’s \”To Be or Not to Be\” to \”The Grey Zone,\” World War II and the Holocaust have been told almost solely from the point of view of the victors and the victims.
Matter of Survival
When filmmaker Sally Potter was a scrappy street kid in North London, she made a horrific discovery. \”I stumbled across details of the concentration camps on a sheet of greasy paper that some fish and chips had been wrapped in,\” she said. \”I wept and wept in terror and incomprehension…. I kept wanting it not to be true.\”