Auschwitz
The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.
Read MoreÀ la Vie, screening as part of the 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival, is easily the best film I have seen so far this year.
Read MoreOtto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreAudacious as it sounds, a new dance work by an innovative choreographer explores how human beings have expanded our ability to articulate the nature of crimes against humanity. “Small Dances about Big Ideas” by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Company. By Debra Cash It was counterintuitive, to say the least, when Professor Martha Minow asked…
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