'Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project' Schedule

"...Feb. 16, "Representations of the Holocaust Through Time" Free lecture: Dr. James Young, Dr. Robert..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Arts Feature

Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band

Survivors' story never finds its rhythm

"...century. But Saul and Ruby, of Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band, are still musicians, even if they've been..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Animal Holocaust

"...might help us to put a face on this holocaust. Regardless of what any style guides might say, I..."

Nov. 23, 2005 Postmarks

Peace Movement in Thirties Partially Responsible for the Holocaust

"...we call World War II and even to the Holocaust. So the numbers in the peace movement will remain..."

May 17, 2005 Postmarks

Jungle Holocaust

Sept. 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cannibal Holocaust

Sept. 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Adopting a Survivor's Tale

Stephen Mills' journey into the Holocaust leads a community toward tolerance

"...The Holocaust was not supposed to be Stephen Mills' story to..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Denial

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

"...the famous court case in which the writer and Holocaust historian was sued for libel by one David Irving..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of Saul

Hungarian Oscar entry finds original way to present a Holocaust drama

"...the argument simmering in the background whenever a new Holocaust-specific film is released: Haven’t there been enough already? Isn’t..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Left Luggage

"...Monty, Maximilian Schell and David Bradley. Echoes of the Holocaust resonate through two different Jewish families living in 1970s..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Quarrel

"...friend in the park, Chaim Kovler (Thomson) -- a Holocaust survivor who fled his native Poland, and is now..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A

Let the voting begin

"...bunch, and since it concerns the actions of a Holocaust survivor, it may stand the strongest chance for an..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anne Frank Remembered

"...Frank has become emblematic of the horrors of the Holocaust. It is to this young girl's diaries we turn..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paper Clips

It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.

"...and more importantly, comprehending the incomprehensible horrors of the Holocaust. For these poor, white, rural children and their teachers,..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...Way Home, which chronicles the difficult paths traveled by Holocaust survivors in fractious, postwar Europe. His new film treads..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

"...manufacturer of execution equipment, who is also a confirmed Holocaust denier, that seems more like a subtle, elegiac tone..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1945

Hungary's Holocaust culpability unearthed in one small village.

"...as both a reminder of Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust and as an examination of what happens when an..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Train of Life

"...Lionel Abelanski. Following in the peculiar tradition of such Holocaust dramedys as Life Is Beautiful and, to a lesser..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bosna!

"...similar behavior during the Spanish Civil War and the Holocaust. Many of the sights are indelible: an imprisoned Serbian..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Swing Kids

"...no less valid for its bloodless approach to the Holocaust. In its way, Swing Kids is looking not so..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Teacher

This prize-winning novel's tale of a student piecing together the hidden life of her teacher, a Holocaust survivor who killed herself, is haunting

"...We come to find out that she was a Holocaust survivor living in Tel Aviv. But we'll discover that..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Arts Review by Jay Trachtenberg

In Darkness

Agnieszka Holland, the director of Europa Europa, creates a blood-quickening Holocaust drama about Poles who were hidden in the sewers.

"...claustrophobic epic is as emotional as they come: a Holocaust story shot through with a layer of darkness both..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sarah's Key

Two parallel stories from different eras intertwine and inform each other in this film based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel.

"...one story is set amid the atrocities of the Holocaust and the other concerns a journalist in modern-day Paris..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes he had made. In this life-affirming Italian "concentration-camp comedy," Benigni uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for telling a heartfelt story about a father who protects his son from the gas chambers by the use of the only weapons at his command: his quick imagination, outlandish buffoonery, and scrappy determination.

"...to overcome any adversity, even that of the Nazi Holocaust. Now, we all know this not to be true,..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Schindler's List

Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.

"...for a world that seems to have forgotten the Holocaust. Indeed, a recent survey concluded that a third of..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis revisits the Holocaust in this new novel, which is eloquent and yet lacks depth

"...Zone of Interest, he revisits the topic of the Holocaust, which he first explored in 1991's Time's Arrow. For..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Kamp

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama is powerfully distancing

"...minutes of prelusive black screen that open Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest serve to tamp down..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Beautiful Blue Eyes

Roy Scheider's final role, as a cop seeking revenge for the Holocaust

"...final role, as a cop seeking revenge for the Holocaust, in the 2009 production formerly known as Iron Cross...."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

The transcendent history of one of the greatest musicals ever

"...seeks to place it in the context of the post-Holocaust Jewish experience and the social and civil revolutions of..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Samuel Project

A family story untold unlocks art and new bonds

"...the family heal from the multigenerational legacy of the Holocaust...."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review

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