Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...

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One of the greatest and most powerful things about filmed entertainment is the way it can keep history alive. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), we annually remember the six million ...

Editor’s note: Peter Rutland is professor of government at Wesleyan University and an expert in the politics of contemporary Russia. He is a vice president of the Association for the Study of ...

A tour that includes cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, third from left) passes the site of a concentration camp in Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures) ...

Diane von Furstenberg’s design business was stagnating in the 1980s when she got a call that her mother had had a nervous breakdown in Europe. The breakdown, her mother’s companion said, may have been ...

Pope Leo XIV included the 1997 Holocaust movie “Life Is Beautiful” among his four favorite films of all time. “Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows ...

(RNS) — If you are like me, you have seen more than your fair share of movies about the Holocaust. Each cinematic offering is powerful and devastating. Each film leaves its moral and spiritual ...

Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, 94, wrote an open letter following the divisive Academy Awards speech from the 'Zone of Interest' filmmaker. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief “I watched in ...

The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies has today voiced its horror over the plans for The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson to produce a movie based on the genocide. The Passion of ...

Holocaust movies are now a genre. It makes one more than a little queasy to acknowledge this. We’re talking about art that seeks to recreate an atrocity of such devastating scale and magnitude; to ...

Steven Spielberg's staggering biopic starring Liam Neesonas Oskar Schindler, a wartime industrialist credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews, is widely considered to be one of the best films ever ...