Film
How to Make a Different Kind of Holocaust Film
Two movies at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival reflect on the onscreen representation of the Holocaust after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark Shoah.
Holocaust
Film
A Documentary Traces How Prisoners Documented Nazi Concentration Camps
From Where They Stood examines the rare phenomenon of prisoners who were able to provide direct victim documentation of the Holocaust.
News
Family of Holocaust Victim Sues Israel Museum in Jerusalem
Ludwig Marum’s grandchildren say the museum did not conduct due diligence when it purchased a 700-year-old Haggadah book that was allegedly stolen from them.
Film
Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust
What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit.
Art
Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings” Confront the Unthinkable Evil
Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.
News
Tennessee School Board Bans Maus, Famous Graphic Novel About the Holocaust
Creator Art Spiegelman said he was “baffled” by the decision and called the school board’s behavior “Orwellian.”
Books
An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story
Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover.
Film
75 Years On, How Cinema Remembers the Holocaust
With those who directly experienced the events dwindling in number, films about the Holocaust must now grapple with what “Never forget” truly means.
Film
How Those Who Lived Through the Holocaust Have Testified in Film
While narratives depicting the Holocaust present fixed versions of events, testimonial films tend to be more open-ended, and pose more profound questions.
Film
How Movies Have “Witnessed” the Holocaust Over the Decades
Since cameras were first pointed at the concentration camps, filmmakers have faced challenges in how to respectfully and meaningfully depict atrocity.
News
Restitution of Franz Marc Painting Sets New Precedent for Art Sold Under Nazi Duress
Germany’s advisory commission recommended the work be returned even though it was sold “outside of the National Socialist sphere of influence.”
Film
An Online Film Festival Commemorates the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Liberation75 is streaming movies about World War II and the Holocaust, including The Great Dictator and Schindler's List, for free.