Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944
Sarah Gensburger, Jonathan Hensher and Elisabeth Fourmont
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The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Jojo Rabbit (2019) in Movies
Jun 27, 2020
I stand corrected on my initial assessment.
Jojo Rabbit is a hilarious take on the life of a child during Nazi reign in Germany. Adolf Hitler is represented as an imaginary friend of a young man who is coming into his own. I know, this seems wicked dark and awful at the same time. But the way that it's approached by the film makers creates an environment that educates and enlightens to the times that were lived by the people of Germany while making it a bit lighter so that it doesn't weigh down all of your emotions to the point of not being able to carry them.
There are some very serious moments and I wouldn't recommend watching with young children (that should be a given if you watched the trailer). However, it is well worth a watch, or even a second. The acting alone is worth a second look.
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz
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This is The Sunday Times Bestseller. Winner of The JQ Wingate Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the COSTA...
The Daughter of Auschwitz
Tova Friedman and Malcolm Brabant
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A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her...
A Most Unlikely Man: A Tale of Resistance
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Isadore Levinsky is a survivor. No stranger to concentration camps, he's been freighted by boxcar to...
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2456 KP) rated His Majesty's Hope (Maggie Hope Mystery, #3) in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-his-majestys-hope-by-susan.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
The Craggus (360 KP) rated Overlord (2018) in Movies
Nov 7, 2018
As stylish as it is, it doesn’t stray very far from the ‘big book of war movie tropes’ as rewritten by Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” and much of its sound and fury war-is-Hell big moments have already appeared in the marketing...
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Aimee Landy-Redding (3 KP) rated The Tattooist of Auschwitz in Books
Jan 24, 2019
Ivana A. | Diary of Difference (1171 KP) rated The Third Half (Treto Poluvreme) (2012) in Movies
Aug 5, 2019
A fight for freedom and keeping the nationality, a fight for love, a fight for survival - this is a must watch to everyone that has interest in history, or loves romance or football.
Emotional until the very end, powerful in every scene, and surrounded by funny moments throughout.
Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer
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Vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler and card shark Freeman Bernstein was no stranger...