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A Race is on to Record the Untold Stories of Aging Holocaust Survivorsnew

Until the Iron Curtain parted, the Holocaust stories like Lupyan's and others' from the former Soviet republics went largely untold on the world stage. But now, there is an urgency to record survivors' stories while a dwindling number still are alive to tell them.
Metro Times  |  Sandra Svoboda  |  10-06-2009  |  History

'Defiance': Tough Jewsnew

Edward Zwick's Holocaust film lacks subtlety -- and that's exactly why it's likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Anders Wright  |  01-14-2009  |  Reviews

Parenting Off the Grid and Off the Reservation in 'Surfwise'new

Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the 84-year-old patriarch, "Doc" Paskowitz showing director Doug Pray a blown-up photo of a Nazi preparing to shoot a Jewish mother and child at close range.
L.A. Weekly  |  Ella Taylor  |  05-27-2008  |  Reviews

Jeremy Podeswa Adds A Personal Touch to 'Fugitive Pieces'new

Like Jakob Beer, the hero of Anne Michaels's novel, Fugitive Pieces, Podeswa's father is Polish and survived the war.
NOW Magazine  |  Deidre Swain  |  05-02-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Scents and Sensibility

I hate the digital camera -- I never use a digital camera!
Washington City Paper  |  Mark Jenkins  |  02-03-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Life Isn't Beautiful

Does Fateless clear the bar already set by previous Holocaust accounts? Yes, but in a paradoxical way -- by pretending that the bar isn't there
Washington City Paper  |  Louis Bayard  |  02-03-2006  |  Reviews

The Juror and the Convictnew

Lynne Harriton was the jury foreman for the trial of Andre Smith, who was sentenced to 120 years to life for his role in a triple homicide at a New York deli. Now she's his closest friend.
The Village Voice  |  Jennifer Gonnerman  |  07-08-2005  |  Crime & Justice

A Hungarian Master Speaks to the Futurenew

Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, and his works, stand on the precipice of his generation -- one of the darkest in world history -- and scream into the void of a future that they cannot know.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  12-20-2004  |  Fiction

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