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Holocaust film ‘Ida’ wins Oscar
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2015
“Ida,” a Polish film about a Catholic novitiate who discovers she is the Jewish child of Holocaust victims, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Oscar nominee ‘Ida’ traces void left by Poland’s murdered Jews
Jewish Journal
February 18, 2015
For the past few decades, Holocaust films have been common — and often victorious — fare at the Academy Awards.
What Ida gets right, and wrong
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2015
A Polish farmer standing shoulders-deep in a hole he has dug in wet, black dirt, searching for Jewish skeletons. As Poles uncover and handle Jewish bones, past sins, dirty conscience, betrayal, and buried grief return and have to be faced.
Israel bypassed in Oscars race
Tom Tugend
December 19, 2014
Israel is out, but a Polish Holocaust-related film is in, as movies from nine countries advanced on Nov. 19 in the Oscar race for best foreign-language film.
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