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The Yugoslav Exhibition at Auschwitz-Birkenau Was Closed for Fifteen Years as Six Successor States - Where Nazi Collaboration and War Crimes Fuel National Divisions to This Very Day - Couldn't Agree on the Story They Wanted to Tell. Last Month, They Made a Surprise Announcement

“Oppenheimer”, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb during World War 2, was the big winner at the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday, winning top honours for best film and best director as well as five other awards.

The emergent necropolitics are reminiscent of how, in Auschwitz, the ragged and emaciated bodies projected ‘a creature with which you have so little in common that you do not even punish it’

A harrowing portrayal of banal evil, a nuanced look at black fiction, a historically accurate TV series, a story about the power of love and a seriously cute exhibition.

Allegations that 150 women died in a clinical trial can’t be confirmed, but the company has long acknowledged that its predecessor facilitated atrocities.

To commemorate the March of the Living UK film premiere of ‘MOTL - Journey of Hope: Retracing the Kindertransport After 85 Years,’ two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met in London.

"I wanted to avoid the artifice of cinema." A24 has revealed a behind-the-scenes featurette for The Zone of Interest, the Best Picture nominated Holocaust film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (of Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin). It premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, and after opening in December, ended up with

Artificial intelligence is being used by anti-Semites to promote Holocaust denial and desecrate the memory of its victims.

She described the camp as a ‘paradise’ – but always claimed she knew nothing about what went on there. How credible was her defence?

The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being passed off as fact, and treated as such by viewers lacking the specialist education to allow them to tell the difference. The Crown, much of which was pure invention, is an obvious example. But one apparently more insidious arrives in our cinemas this week. The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is very loosely based on the 2014 novel of the