OSCARS SPECIAL / Are Holocaust movies good for the Jews?
These films so crowded the end-of-year releases that at one point it seemed you could only see a Holocaust movie.
By Tom Teicholz, L.A. Jewish Journal Tags: Israel newsAre Holocaust movies good for the Jews? Or even, for that matter, for society at large?
This year's offerings include "Defiance," a story of a group of Jews who were heroic resistance fighters; "The Reader," a story of post-war revelation about a Nazi woman who beds down with a German boy and "Valkyrie," about the Nazi plot to murder Hitler.
These Holocaust-related movies so crowded the end-of-year releases that at one point it seemed that on any given weekend you had to choose which Holocaust movie to see.
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A scene from The Reader, the tale of an illiterate former concentration camp guard. |
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