Warsaw Ghetto

The World Turns Its Back Again: Tunis 2012-Bermuda 1943

Barry Lando | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Syria, Assad, Warsaw Ghetto, Homs, Bermuda Conference, Tunis, Syria Crisis, Syria Uprising, Syria Protests, Syria Conflict, World News
Barry Lando

Imagine if anyone with the Internet had been able to follow the massacre of the civilians in the Warsaw Ghetto. Imagine if the world had seen all that 69 years ago: the scenes we've been witnessing every day from Homs.

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Say The Name: There Is No Such Thing As Holocaust Fiction

Saumya Arya Haas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kaddish, Harvard University, Rabindranath Tagore, David Carrasco, Judith Sherman, Holocaust Memories, Hindu-Jewish Relations, Judaism, Warsaw Ghetto, Holocaust Reflection, Hindus and the Holocaust, Holocaust Poetry, Ravensbrük Concentration Camp, A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry, Korczack's Children, Religion News
Saumya Arya Haas

After a lifetime of not thinking about it much, I suddenly stumbled into Holocaust memories, and now they are tangled around me. They are not my memories, but their meaning is part of my life. It has to be.

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A Film Unfinished (A Mayor Koch Review)

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Propaganda, Mayor at the Movies, Nazi, Yael Hersonski, Germany, Warsaw Ghetto, Entertainment News
Ed Koch

A new documentary examines what the Nazis hoped to accomplish with their portrayals of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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A Real Critic's Choice

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Party, Warsaw Ghetto, Friday, Critic?S Choice, A Film Unfinished, Keith David, Mike Epps, Holocaust, Marshall Fine Blog, Bow Wow, Ice Cube, Lottery Ticket, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Recently, I had to choose between two screenings, both happening at the same time. One was Lottery Ticket, a comedy starring Bow Wow. The other was A Film Unfinished, a Holocaust-themed documentary. That seems like a no-brainer, right?

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A Film Unfinished: How German it Is

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Yael Hersonski, Holocaust Films, A Film Unfinished, Warsaw Ghetto, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Just when you think historians have unearthed as many images as can be mined illustrating what happened to the Jews during WWII, a new can of film emerges and becomes a catalyst for a re-reading of a vintage Nazi film.

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HuffPost Review: A Film Unfinished

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

As Yael Hersonski's documentary, A Film Unfinished, shows, even in documentary film, seeing wasn't always believing -- and the Nazis knew this.

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Why Did the Nazis Film the Dying Jews of Warsaw?

Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sharon Waxman

In a French-themed café a block from the teeming beach, producer Noemi Schory explains why her new Holocaust documentary, An Unfinished Film, did not deserve the R rating that the MPAA handed down.

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A Film Unfinished: The Warsaw Ghetto As Seen Through Nazi Eyes

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Jews, New Films, Nazi Propaganda, Nazi Germany, Sundance Film Festival, Warsaw Ghetto, A Film Unfinished, Entertainment News
Richard Z. Chesnoff

In 1942, a crew of German soldiers filmed Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their perverse propaganda goal: to record for posterity examples of the "sub-human culture" of the soon to be eliminated.

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Kibbutz Diary: A Shoah Memorial the World Should See

David Dagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zeev Ben-Zvi, Jews, Mishmar Ha'emek, Nazis, Peter Eisenman, Shoah, Tosia Altman, Berlin, Warsaw Ghetto, Sculpture, Holocaust, Israel, Kibbutz, Monuments, Arts News
David Dagan

To me, Mishmar Ha'emek's Pinat Hagola is an example of what we should strive for in public art built in memory of tragedies. Often, the smallest places can say the most.

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Come In, Take Your Shoes Off: A New Look at Tisha B'Av

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeremiah, High Priest, Yom Kippur, Jewish Temple, 9th of Av, Jewish Expulsion From England, Warsaw Ghetto, Jerusalem, Tisha B'Av, Jewish Expulsion From Spain, Moses, Holy of Holies, Book of Lamentations, Ark of the Covenant, Fasting, Prayer, Religion News
Angela Himsel

Let me tell you who I was, or who I believed myself to be, when I came to be built among you. You saw me as a bridge between the earth and heaven, but come closer.

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