The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden ...

A tour that includes cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, third from left) passes the site of a concentration camp in Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures) ...

(CNN) — Editor’s note: Peter Rutland is professor of government at Wesleyan University and an expert in the politics of contemporary Russia. He is a vice president of the Association for the Study of ...

“The Zone of Interest” offers a chilling new perspective on the Holocaust. Nominated for five Oscars including best picture, the film (in theaters nationwide Friday) is set just outside the walls of ...

(RNS) — If you are like me, you have seen more than your fair share of movies about the Holocaust. Each cinematic offering is powerful and devastating. Each film leaves its moral and spiritual ...

Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...

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The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies has today voiced its horror over the plans for The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson to produce a movie based on the genocide. The Passion of ...