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• Winfrey Web site adds Holocaust story disclaimer
Herman and Roma Rosenblat pose in their North Miami Beach, Fla. home, as they talk about "Angel Girl," the book written by Laurie Friedman, about the beginning of their relationship during the Holocaust. Oprah Winfrey has yet to comment on Rosenblat ...
• Defiance’ can’t decide what it wants to be
... secure enough about what’s best about “Defiance” — the film’s action-packed scenes of armed resistance against Nazis fighting in Russia — and found himself trapped in another archetype, that of the serious, self-aware, Important Holocaust ...
• Austrian-born author Johannes Mario Simmel dies
He published his first novel in 1949 while working as a translator for the American military administration in postwar Austria. Most of his father's family, who were of Jewish origin, died in the Holocaust, and Simmel was a lifelong campaigner ...
• If you see one Nazi movie, make it ‘Good’
Brazilian director Vicente Amorim understands, unlike so many other filmmakers who have tackled the subject, that the horrors of the Holocaust are enough to stir and disturb audiences; there’s no reason for the movie to clobber you over the head ...
• Prosecutors to Polanski: All is not forgiven
While in exile, he won the 2002 Oscar for directing “The Pianist,” a holocaust drama. The issue of his rape case drew renewed interest in 2008 with the broadcast of an HBO documentary, “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” which suggested a ...