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Director Yoav Potash (left) greets Yaacov Goldstein, one of the last Jewish survivors of Gniewoszów, Poland. (Courtesy of 8 Above via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 2:47 pm
Poland ‘investigates’ film about Jews killed after the Holocaust, may ban it
California filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors’ follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown — and it’s causing a far-right uproar
By Shira Li Bartov
Elie Wiesel arrives for a round table discussion on Capitol Hill, March 2, 2015, in Washington, DC. (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 27, 2026, 5:52 am
New documentary reveals saga behind Elie Wiesel’s world-famous Holocaust memoir ‘Night’
In ‘Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,’ airing on PBS in the US on January 27, filmmaker Oren Rudavsky examines the Nobel laureate through his ‘lifelong attempt to give his life meaning’
By Rich Tenorio
Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part 1999 documentary 'Speer und Er' by director Heinrich Breloer. (Bavaria Media)
September 3, 2025, 11:51 pm
Documentary lays bare Nazi propagandist celebrated for her cinema, unpunished for crimes
In his film ‘Riefenstahl’ out in the US Sept. 4, director Andres Veiel mines hidden archives to cut through a gifted auteur revered by Hitler as the epitome of Aryan womanhood
By Jordan Hoffman
The seven Weber siblings upon their arrival at New York Harbor in May 1946. Bottom row from left: Renee, Judith, and Bela. Top row from left: Gertrude, Alfons, Senta, and Ruth. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 24, 2025, 2:22 am
Netflix tells tale of 7 siblings who miraculously survived the Holocaust to restart life in US
Now streaming, ‘UnBroken’ illuminates story of the Webers, who lived in hiding on a German farm for two years — only to be cruelly separated upon arrival in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Filmmaker Yoav Potash filming Aaron Friedman Tartakovksy, whose family came from Gniewoszów, Poland, the central element in 'Among Neighbors,' Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)
April 22, 2025, 10:56 am
Documentary digs up story of Polish village that butchered its Jews after Holocaust ended
It took filmmaker Yoav Potash 10 years to describe the events of once peacefully coexisting Gniewoszów, with the help of residents, survivors and a team of animators
By Jessica Steinberg
Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos (left) and Bruno Lohse. (© Living Memory Productions)
February 19, 2025, 6:23 pm
Unrepentant Nazi art thief who stole Jews’ art from ‘still warm walls’ focus of new film
Airing Feb. 19 on PBS, ‘Plunderer’ chronicles the life of Bruno Lohse, who amassed a collection worth millions while looting the homes of Jews for his boss Hermann Goering during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Zev Vilmos Klein sits on the sofa while his daughter shows a family photo in the film 'Endphase.' (Courtesy Sixpack Film)
July 30, 2023, 3:17 am
With ‘Endphase,’ local filmmaker brings to light 1945 massacre in quiet Austrian town
Hans Hochstöger grew up in idyllic Hofamt Priel never knowing that the SS gunned down over 200 Hungarian Jews there. Now he seeks to raise awareness of the village’s tragic history
By Rich Tenorio
David “Saba” Wisnia in a scene from 'How Saba Kept Singing.' (Retro Report via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 5:15 pm
Clinton-produced ‘How Saba Kept Singing’ tells story of cantor’s Auschwitz survival
PBS documentary, to air on Yom Hashoah, recounts how David Wisnia stayed alive for three years at notorious death camp by entertaining Nazi guards with operatic voice
By Gabe Friedman
A still from Marcel Ophuls's 1969 Holocaust documentary 'The Sorrow and the Pity.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
February 23, 2023, 3:46 am
French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ is still chillingly relevant
Re-released in the US on Feb. 24, Marcel Ophuls’ 4-hour 1969 film presents a riveting depiction of everyday life in Nazi-occupied France and is ultimately about human nature
By Jordan Hoffman
Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann (center) assisted Stuart Schulberg (right) and others of the OSS Field Film Photographic Branch - War Crimes Unit examine footage after his capture by Allied forces. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
January 29, 2023, 5:31 am
How 2 brothers dug up Nazi footage for the Nuremberg Trials and the US covered it up
‘Filmmakers for the Prosecution,’ playing in NYC through Feb. 2, shows how in the War Crimes Unit Budd and Stuart Schulberg helped convict top Nazis; Americans never saw their work
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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