Holocaust cinema has always grappled with the seemingly impossible question of whether historical atrocities can be rightfully represented on screen. And, is it even worth trying to artistically ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site in Poland can spot homes not far from the former camp's perimeters. When I visited Auschwitz in 2022, I was a bit stupefied — who, I thought, could ...

Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common. The directors of “The Zone of Interest,” “Origin” and “Occupied City” refuse to let it live in the past. By Esther Zuckerman In the British comedy ...

Jan. 30 (UPI) --The Zone of Interest, which was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture, conveys the horrors of Auschwitz from the outside. The film requires the audience to piece ...

A singular affront, in ways more conventionally wrenching movie treatments of the Holocaust such as “Schindler’s List” never were, “The Zone of Interest” withholds as much as it reveals, reorienting ...

Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for The Zone of Interest. After garnering frenzied critical acclaim throughout 2023 at film festivals across the globe, The Zone of Interest is finally ...

(JTA) – “The Zone of Interest” is not like other Holocaust movies. Directed by British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, the film initially appears to follow an unexceptional German family in the ...

In the new Sunn Stream documentary, Shony Alex Braun’s family fulfills his final wish to play his 15-minute “Symphony of the Holocaust” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau gates. Armenian violinist Erik ...

A new documentary, “The Commandant’s Shadow,” chronicles the lives of two elderly people who, as children, lived on opposite sides of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp: 98-year old Anita ...

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 ...