The documentary complements the audio from the trial with visuals of the Nazi era and death camps and features extensive in-person interviews with prosecutors and others involved in the trial.
In \”Ever Again,\” the Simon Wiesenthal Center, having documented the Holocaust and its aftermath in earlier films, presents a frightening picture of a rising wave of European anti-Semitism, fueled by Islamic fanatics and neo-Nazis.
\”Out of Faith\” will screen at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 12, at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, to be followed by a discussion between the audience and the filmmakers. When Holocaust survivor Leah Welbel learns that her American granddaughter is about to marry a Christian, she cries out, \”When this happened in my old hometown, my family used to sit shiva. Here they expect me to open my arms. I can\’t do it.\”
Kodlawsky said her goal was to tell Thiranagama\’s story vividly; in a way, it reminded her of those late-night discussions over cigarettes and coffee. Her mother\’s friends often spoke of how Kodlawsky\’s mother risked death to smuggle food to others at Bergen-Belsen.
Monika Hertwig was 1 year old when her father Amon Goeth, sadistic SS commandant of the Plaszow forced-labor and concentration camp, was hanged as a war criminal in 1946. Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig was picked among the prisoners by Goeth as his maid and was brutalized for two years. Now, more than 60 years later, the two women are the unlikely protagonists of the feature documentary \”Inheritance: A Legacy of Hatred and the Journey to Change It.\”
For fans craving city-stomping action, \”Godzilla, King of the Monsters\” will rear his scaly head this summer in a rare big-screen appearance, incinerating steel and citizens alike with his nuclear halitosis.
Each nation has to come to terms with its past. For the Germans, it\’s the Holocaust, and for the French, it\’s their collaboration with the Nazi and Vichy regimes. No one who has not lived under a brutal dictatorship, where the wrong word might mean loss of life or livelihood, is in a position of judgment or superior virtue.
A new Holocaust documentary, co-produced by the Los Angeles-based Shoah Foundation, is being filmed in Ukraine and targeted mainly toward a Ukranian and Russian audience. The film should be completed by September, in time for the 65th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre.
It\’s not surprising that my husband is the first in line at one of the earliest \”Kong\” press screenings. He\’s loved the giant simian since he first watched the 1933 classic film on TV when he was 7.
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