June 6, 1944, may have been the most important day of the 20th century. The Allied invasion of France breached Hitler\’s Atlantic Wall and decisively turned the war against the Nazi regime.
World War II and the Holocaust ended more than 60 years ago, but the subject\’s fascination for filmmakers as the ultimate moral testing ground for participants on both sides only intensifies with the passage of time.
More than 60 years have passed, yet French filmmakers are still wrestling with their country\’s less than heroic role under Nazi occupation during World War II.
By 1939 some 2,500 German Jews had relocated to Los Angeles, and by 1941, when the United States entered the war, their number had grown to 6,000, making Los Angeles the second-largest center of German-speaking Jews in America. As the German Jews made connections with the L.A. Jewish community, two immigrant businessmen came together to form The German Jewish Club of 1933.
There was never a time in my life when I did not know about the Holocaust.In a strange way, I think I just took the idea of this for granted.
Austria\’s \”Counterfeiters,\” one of five foreign-language films vying for Oscar honors, probes the moral dilemmas facing a special group of Jewish concentration camp inmates in one of the more remarkable episodes of World War II.
In slight self-mockery, the young American volunteers who went over in 1947 and 1948 as riflemen, sailors, pilots and nurses to fight for the independence of the Jewish state, sang this song.\n\nNow, 60 years later, they came together again, along with their children and grandchildren, to greet old comrades and tell their stories at the Machal West celebration on Dec. 9.\n\nThere was Mitchell Flint, the honoree of the luncheon at the American Jewish University, who had been shot down over Midway as a U.S. fighter pilot during World War II, fought for the fledgling Israeli air force and served in Korea.
Marcel Marceau, world-famous mime artist, dies at 84
The Nazi regime was not only the world\’s greatest murderer, but the biggest thief as well. High on the list of loot were Europe\’s master paintings and sculptures
Aaron \”Red\” Finkel, who volunteered to become one of Israel\’s first fighter pilots during the War of Independence, died on Feb. 23 in Woodland Hills at the age of 86.
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