Manya Hartmayer Breuer, a docent at The Jewish Federation\’s Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, usually doesn\’t watch Holocaust films. They stir up too many painful memories.
When Natasha Richardson starred in Paul Schrader\’s 1988 biopic, \”Patty Hearst,\” she drew inspiration from a Holocaust-themed tome plucked off a shelf in her father\’s Los Angeles home. The book was \”If This Is a Man,\” Primo Levi\’s account of his time in Auschwitz, and in its pages the young Brit gleaned crucial insights into the psyche of her brutalized character.
\”Haven\” is an intriguing but seriously flawed depiction of how nearly 1,000 European refugees were transported and admitted to the United States in 1944, which CBS-TV will present as a four-hour miniseries on Feb. 11 and 14 at 9 p.m.
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