Surely the most unpromising premise for a film ever conceived is this: Nine and one half hours of people speaking in languages you do not understand about mass murder. Yet “Shoah” offers an experience unlike any other film, and its creator has written a memoir introducing us to the extraordinary man responsible for its existence.
Tina Strobos, a medical student in Amsterdam during World War II who helped save more than 100 Jews from the Nazis, has died.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, will challenge President Hugo Chavez in upcoming elections.
A British nun who saved dozens of Jews in Rome during the Holocaust has been advanced on the road to sainthood.
For the first time, some survivors of Nazi-era ghettos are eligible for a one-time payment from the so-called Ghetto Fund in addition to the pensions they receive from the German government.
Bank Leumi has agreed to pay nearly $37 million to the heirs of Holocaust victims and to projects that help Israeli survivors. The Israeli bank reached a settlement Sunday with Hashava-The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims\’ Assets, a company started by the Israeli government in 2006.
The Holocaust documentary \”Shoah\” is being broadcast in Iran. The 1985 documentary by French director Claude Lanzmann was scheduled to be presented this week on a satellite channel and is dubbed in Farsi. Satellites are banned in Iran, but many Iranians have them and therefore could watch the film, which includes survivor testimony.
Yad Vashem says it has identified two-thirds of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Israel\’s Holocaust Martyrs\’ and Heroes\’ Remembrance Authority in the last decade has added about 1.4 million names to its central database of Shoah victims’ names, bringing the total number of names registered to about 4 million, according to a statement released Tuesday. “One of Yad Vashem\’s central missions since its foundation, the recovery of each and every victim\’s name and personal story, has resulted in relentless efforts to restore the names and identities of as many of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices as possible,\” said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev. \”We will continue our efforts to recover the unknown names, and by harnessing technology in the service of memory, we are able to share their names with the world.”
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education hosted its first International Digital Access, Outreach and Research Conference, highlighting the foundation’s visual history archive, which contains 52,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses from 56 countries.
The film reconstructs the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on the Fuhrer\’s life, which, had it succeeded, would have spared the lives of untold thousands of soldiers and death-camp inmates
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