Holocaust movies have become such a genre of their own that it is hard for them to find anything new to say. Yet directors ...
Films tend to reflect our anxieties. So it’s not a coincidence that we’re getting so many Holocaust-themed movies at the same ...
Yoav Potash, a Holocaust documentarian with Shoah Foundation backing, has provoked the ire of ultra-conservatives in Poland.
This makes film’s presentation feel extremely — for lack of a better word — basic. The movie, however, never figures out exactly which of these threads it wants to follow. Is it about the trials? The ...
(JTA) — When Rita Zohar stepped into the role of Bessie Stern, a Holocaust survivor whose death sets in motion Scarlett Johansson’s new film “Eleanor the Great,” she wasn’t simply acting. Zohar, 81, ...
Yoav Potash's award-winning documentary about murderous Poles in the post-war period stirs nationalist outrage ...
As a pre-teen, Indianapolis resident Frank Grunwald survived imprisonment in a series of harrowing concentration camps: Theresienstadt in his home country of Czechoslovakia, followed by Auschwitz in ...
Meg Waite Clayton was mulling how to follow up her best-selling 2021 historical fiction novel "The Postmistress of Paris" when fate tapped her on the shoulder. Her father had died and grief was making ...