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A Documentary Traces How Prisoners Documented Nazi Concentration Camps

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 13, 2022July 13, 2022

From Where They Stood examines the rare phenomenon of prisoners who were able to provide direct victim documentation of the Holocaust.

Posted inNews

Family of Holocaust Victim Sues Israel Museum in Jerusalem

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

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.

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Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel February 8, 2022July 13, 2022

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.

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Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings” Confront the Unthinkable Evil

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford January 31, 2022February 8, 2022

Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.

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Tennessee School Board Bans Maus, Famous Graphic Novel About the Holocaust

by Hakim Bishara January 27, 2022January 28, 2022

Creator Art Spiegelman said he was “baffled” by the decision and called the school board’s behavior “Orwellian.”

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An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford September 14, 2021December 30, 2021

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.

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75 Years On, How Cinema Remembers the Holocaust

by Justine Smith July 21, 2021December 30, 2021

With those who directly experienced the events dwindling in number, films about the Holocaust must now grapple with what “Never forget” truly means.

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How Those Who Lived Through the Holocaust Have Testified in Film

by Justine Smith July 20, 2021December 30, 2021

While narratives depicting the Holocaust present fixed versions of events, testimonial films tend to be more open-ended, and pose more profound questions.

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How Movies Have “Witnessed” the Holocaust Over the Decades

by Justine Smith July 19, 2021December 30, 2021

Since cameras were first pointed at the concentration camps, filmmakers have faced challenges in how to respectfully and meaningfully depict atrocity.

Posted inNews

Restitution of Franz Marc Painting Sets New Precedent for Art Sold Under Nazi Duress

by Cassie Packard May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

Germany’s advisory commission recommended the work be returned even though it was sold “outside of the National Socialist sphere of influence.”

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An Online Film Festival Commemorates the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 11, 2021May 11, 2021

Liberation75 is streaming movies about World War II and the Holocaust, including The Great Dictator and Schindler’s List, for free.

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Photos by Jewish Artist Who Documented Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland Gifted to MFA Boston

by Cassie Packard March 4, 2021March 8, 2021

Ross was forcibly confined to the Lodz Ghetto and tasked to take propaganda photographs, but secretly documented the brutal living conditions to leave a historical record of atrocities committed by the Nazis.

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