Railroad cars brought the author's father and mother to Auschwitz, but railroad cars also brought them from Auschwitz, eventually to the town where they would try to start fresh and raise a family. His book is a loving, questioning, aching letter from a onetime little boy to the father the Nazis took from him.
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Theater Review (NYC): Victor Attar in ‘Golgotha’ – a Holocaust Remembrance Monodrama by Shmuel Refael
The memories of his forced service at Auschwitz haunt a Sephardic Jew for the rest of his life in this searing, frighteningly timely one-man play.
Read More »Toronto and London Film Festival Movie Review: ‘The People vs. Fritz Bauer’
Who was really behind Nazi SS-Obersturmbannfuhhrer Adolph Eichmann's celebrated capture in Argentina which led to his eventual trial and execution in Israel?
Read More »NYFF and Hamptons Film Festivals Review: ‘Son of Saul’
Only when we stand in another's shoes can we see from their perspective and begin to understand our own humanity. especially if its a Sonderkommando of Auschwitz.
Read More »New York Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Natan’
At the New York Jewish Film Festival, the documentary "Natan" profiles one of France's most brilliant entrepreneurs and innovators in the film industry.
Read More »Book Review: The Commandant: An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess, ed. by Jürg Amann
Condensing the autobiography of the commander of Auschwitz into a 16-page "monologue" doesn't make the horror any less.
Read More »Book Review: The Druggist of Auschwitz: A Documentary Novel by Dieter Schlesak
Fiction and nonfiction combine to examine the human capacity to inflict and endure suffering at Auschwitz.
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