Sentences with phrase «holocaust stories»

I worry that while Kominsky - Crumb has inspired graphic novelists like Alison Bechdel and Phoebe Glockner and maybe even female performer - writers such as Sarah Silverman and Lena Dunham, she will be niche, this too Jewish elderly female comic artist drawing her neuroses, her Holocaust stories, her wacky polyandrous marriage, and her sexcapades.

Now, on the eve of Thanksgiving the CNN crew is turning it into a Jewish event with Holocaust stories.

Holocaust stories are much more real than christmas stories.

Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

But, as a whole, this is a powerful telling of a Holocaust story that has its fictitious moments but still ably serves as a justifiable historical record.

Of course, in hindsight it's hardly a stretch to make that assumption when just two years later the director gave us his magnum opus with the crushingly heartfelt Holocaust story «Schindler's List,» a film that many consider to be one of the best movies ever made about this dark hour in world history.

Based on actual events, this claustrophobic epic is as emotional as they come: a Holocaust story shot through with a layer of darkness both literal and figurative.

As with any Holocaust story, the inescapable gravity of the fact that these horrors really happened inside civilization not so long ago impresses a sobering sense of reality on the viewer.

In the Classroom: Based on Hiroki Sugihara's own words, Ken Mochizuki's Passage to Freedom is the first fully illustrated children's book to tell Sugihara's heroic Holocaust story, highlighting his courageous humanity and the importance of a child's opinion in his father's decision.

He was featured in Halloween II from 1981, and his partner is Astrid Rosenfeld, a German writer who had unusual success with her debut novel holocaust story Adam's Erbe.

Not exact matches

After years of snubs, Steven Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar for «Schindler's List,» based on the true story of a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

This next part of my grandmother's story is still hard for me to imagine: To survive the Holocaust and the war, Grandma Mira lived underground — literally.

I now feel the need to share her story after a major report pointed to a troubling trend: Many Americans today have little knowledge or are misinformed about the Holocaust.

Truth is, for every happy ending story like this in the holocaust (or anywhere else for that matter) there are 10000 with an unhappy ending.

No one kept those kinds of records which is why stories such as Perpetua's became so important as symbols of the persecution as a whole - serving much the same role as Anne Frank does today for the holocaust... a symbol of a sad and painful time.

In The World at War a holocaust survivor tells a story of a Jewish Rabbi who prays for God to save the Jews being put to death in the camps.

They need, however, to be challenged because the way in which Christians have heard the story of Jesus» passion has inflamed prejudice and hatred of Jews and has been a cause of persecution in every century — most of all in the horrors of the Holocaust.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

Jews have their story, from Abraham and Exodus through the Exile and past the Holocaust.

I don't think CNN goes as much as 2 days without a story about the Jews, the Holocaust, or Hitler.

And No» a thousand times No» we can not, must not celebrate delightfully diverse stories that read the mouth - stopping horror of the Holocaust as the playfulness of power or a symphony of creativeness through death.

When I say the story is being retold in fresh ways, I do not refer to the Lidless Eye crowd of Holocaust deniers, who will likely always be with us, but to works of substantial scholarship that are rightly welcomed for helping us to understand how what happened did happen.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

After the recent flood of stories, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel appeared on CNN and called on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to reprimand his church.

Elie Wiesel recounts his story of life in the Nazi concentration camps to Bill Moyers on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1991.

Can I conceive that my story, or even those of a few thousand people like me, could prevent another Holocaust?

The book tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors, who, as teenagers, lost virtually everything they had during the War, but rebuilt their lives and went on to serve society in extraordinary ways.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

Neither author regards the story of the Holocaust as sacred history or martyrology that is exempt from revisions that naturally occur in the light of new evidence and arguments — nor, they point out, have reputable historians treated it as such.

Still, deniers work the edges of the story, picking out the inevitable contradictions (or appearances of contradiction) produced by a large and complex event such as the Holocaust, trying to give the impression of unravelling the whole story by tugging on a few loose threads.

I have told the story of how my eyes were opened, which was not by way of the Holocaust.

And at the exhibition of the holocaust I was deeply saddened by the mountain of shoes and glasses there, the pictures and stories of those that suffered and died as a result of the atrocities.

As he continued to collect stories, with a small team filming the interviews, the horror of what happened during the Holocaust also grew.

Engardio helps viewers to get past the joke by following the stories of two men: one an aged survivor of the Holocaust and one a 20 - something with a rare disease.

The new book by Lynn Kirsche Shapiro celebrates the resilience and courage of holocaust survivors through food and stories.

Liverpool U18s captain Liam Coyle said: «It was a real privilege for the lads to be able to listen to Zigi's story to gain a better understanding of the traumatic experiences that he and the other millions of people impacted by the Holocaust went through.

Harry Spiro, the holocaust survivor who shared his story with the Chelsea players at Cobham back in January, was one of the many who had to endure one of the death marches.

The stories include those of the son of Holocaust survivors, Puerto Rican and Chinese immigrant families.

While there, they make a stop at the historic landmark, where the story makes a parallel between Hazel's suffering from cancer and the terrors of the Holocaust.

His book, Ruta's Closet, tells the story of the Lithuanian Holocaust through the eyes of one Jewish family.

King was referring to a convent of 14 Camelite nuns in a two - story building just outside the barbed wire perimeter of the death camp, where some 1.5 million Jews perished during the Holocaust.

The property includes the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum, which tells the story of the 982 European refugees, mostly Jewish, who were temporarily housed at Fort Ontario during World War II.

Perhaps the common factor in most of the documentaries, films and stories of this time is of the Holocaust itself, and the misery and suffering that befell millions at the hands of the «master race».

Whether you are just beginning to learn about the Holocaust or you are looking for more in - depth stories about the subject, this page is for you.

It captured a story from the Holocaust that was not widely known and opened up people's eyes again to the atrocities committed in WWII.

«TheShoah Foundation Story» is a short featurette explaining how this Holocaust memory projectcame to be, and what its goals are.

The film has been an easy target for those who find Spielberg's approach too upbeat or «commercial,» or condemn him for converting Holocaust sources into a well - told story.

The latest film to depict the heroics and horrors that occurred in the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife is ultimately a mixed bag, but is nonetheless able to capitalize on the inherent power of its story through strong performances and honest emotion.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Award, The Restless Conscience documents a little - known story of the Holocaust - the resistance to Hitler within Nazi Germany - illuminating crucial issues of conscience and will.

Although basically a story of love and betrayal, the tension is increased dramatically by setting the story during the holocaust when a wife could be conveniently discarded and exploited if she were Jewish.