After Auschwitz
Documentary The structure of After Auschwitz may be simple (talking heads and archival footage), but the cumulative effect of six women revealing the physical, psychological and emotional toll on Holocaust survivors is a powerful testament to individual humanity emerging from inhuman horrors. Director Jon Kean chronicled their adolescence spent in Nazi concentration camps in his 2007 documentary Swimming in Auschwitz. Kean's enlightening follow-up starts in 1945, when these young women (ranging in age from 16 to 23) began to comprehend that the pre-war Jewish life they'd kno...