Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (L-R) Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the Bundesstag Norbert Lammert arrive for a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, January 27, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS)
Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:14 +0100 WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him with the Righteous Among the Nations. "The story started to haunt me, I started to dream about it," Holland told Reuters in an interview. ... (Source: Reuters)
Polish drama "In Darkness" sheds light on Holocaust
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:30:15 +0200 TORONTO (Reuters) - With her new drama "In Darkness" Agnieszka Holland has returned to her native Poland to produce a haunting portrait of the Holocaust that could net the veteran director another Oscar nod. (Source: Reuters)
This 1944 photo obtained from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum ...
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:40:11 +0200 (AFP/HO/US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM) - This 1944 photo obtained from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Nazi officers and Dr. Josef Mengele (L), known as the Angel of Death. A US auction house has announced it will put under the hammer the journals of Mengele, who decided life or death and directed gruesome medical experiments in concentration camps.(AFP/HO/US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM/Ho)
A girl rests on a concrete column of the Holocaust memorial ...
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:00:02 +0200 (Reuters) - A girl rests on a concrete column of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, June 17, 2011. The memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe consists of 2,711 charcoal-grey rectangular pillars, which rise from the ground and form a tight grid through which visitors can wander. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: CITYSCAPE RELIGION SOCIETY)
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