The first hint that Reunion is an unusual kind of Holocaust film comes from a music cue. An older man has traveled from New ...

(RNS) — If you are like me, you have seen more than your fair share of movies about the Holocaust. Each cinematic offering is powerful and devastating. Each film leaves its moral and spiritual ...

The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden ...

One of the greatest and most powerful things about filmed entertainment is the way it can keep history alive. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), we annually remember the six million ...

On a wintry 1944 night at Auschwitz, several Jewish women, naked and shivering, are forced into a large room and plunged into total darkness. They scream and cling to each other, peering up in dread ...

A tour that includes cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, third from left) passes the site of a concentration camp in Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures) ...

Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common. The directors of “The Zone of Interest,” “Origin” and “Occupied City” refuse to let it live in the past. By Esther Zuckerman In the British comedy ...

The Holocaust is fast receding from living memory. Some 300 Auschwitz survivors were present at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the camp’s liberation in 2015. This year, just 50 attended, all ...

PARIS — How do you find a fresh perspective on the Holocaust? In his first feature, “Son of Saul,” the Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes chose to depict the enormity through the specific. For most of ...