Kesher Talk

The elusive Holocaust movie. Thane Rosenbaum - novelist, writing teacher, and child of Holocaust survivors - critiques the new generation of Holocaust films. Coincidentally, I saw "The Pianist" the night before I read this. My fathers' parents were from Warsaw (they had emigrated to Berlin before my father was born), and they spent the war fleeing the Nazis, so the film was very personal for me, maybe more so than if it had taken place in a concentration camp. But as far as I know, my family didn't have to hide starving for months at a time.

My main complaint about "Schindler's List" was that the concentration camp inmates looked too clean and well-fed. I don't have that complaint about "The Pianist."

posted by Judith @ 1/09/2003 10:20:39 PM