For decades, the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has banned all shooting of feature films on its grounds, rebuffing Steven Spielberg as he made “Schindler’s List” in 1993, along with ...
In the attempted comedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Hitler — and befriends him anyway.
Survivor Ryszard Horowitz is "very much for preserving the place for as many generations as possible," and Polish director Agnieszka Holland is "really curious what the new generation will bring to ...
He Zoomed in for the premiere of his new film, which embeds issues of trauma and identity in an odd-couple buddy comedy. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics If humanity were to ...
In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on a roots tour of Poland, berates his fellow travellers for riding in a ...
A Holocaust survivor speaking to students. Photo courtesy of the Mizel Museum. This post really isn’t about Marty Supreme.
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 ...
This is the second part of a three-part series about how the Holocaust has been depicted in cinema. You can read part one, about witness narratives, here. Most testimonial Holocaust films can be ...
17/05/2025 - CANNES 2025: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has launched Picture from Auschwitz, a virtual filmmaking project preserving authenticity, history and truth On Thursday 15 May at the ...
In a scene from “Sweet Lorraine in Auschwitz,” Frank Grunwald plays the accordion. (Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council) Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Jewish ...