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David Azoulai, head of the Metula Council, proposed sending all Gazans to refugee camps in Lebanon and flattening the whole Strip so it becomes an empty museum like Auschwitz.

The crucial context is that these scenes are occurring only a stone wall away from the gas chambers and crematoriums of Auschwitz. In his meticulous and harrowing film “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting the horror itself. Glazer has chosen a different route.

SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (Germany) Worldcrunch BERLIN - Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis murdered 500,000 Sinti and Roma Gypsies. Now, nearly 70 years after World War II, a memorial is being inaugurated today in Berlin to honor those murdered. German President Joachim Gauck, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and...

The Globe and Mail spoke to Glazer about his meticulous methods and how he did not end up getting lost in the dark waters surrounding the subject matter of his latest film

In a never-before-published interview shortly before his suicide, the Jewish-Italian author opens up about his adolescent angst and traumas beyond Auschwitz.

BERLIN — Shahak Shapira is the Israeli-born son of a Holocaust survivor and Munich Olympic victim. But he's also a proud Berliner, even though he's been beaten up and insulted by neo-Nazis. Now he's published a book that is more or less serious. How I Became the Most German Jew in the World is a tit...

"Thanks for your National Socialist hospitality." A24 has debuted a second official trailer for The Zone of Interest, the acclaimed new film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (of Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin). Opening in theaters soon this December, the film is appearing on lots of Top 10 lists this month. It originally premiered

When my children were born, I knew that when they were old enough I had to take them to Auschwitz. We are finally going in the New Year, but the times have radically changed. What does remembrance mean now that the old trauma is once again upon us? The Shoah is no longer something remote. It is breathing down our necks. This is where Jews find themselves in 2023.

Conductor Leo Geyer carried out extensive research into testimonies from Auschwitz and the history of music at the camps.

Music played amid the highs and very deep lows of Auschwitz will be heard again for the first time in 80 years. Leo Geyer, a composer and conductor pursuing a doctorate in music...