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...Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the names of the victims will again be read from the steps of Widener Library. Yet remembrance has a different angle this year, the year that Hollywood made the Holocaust into a movie...
...Jewish mob cried, "His blood be on us and on our children" while demanding the death of Jesus. And centuries of Christians would oblige them with massacres and persecutions, pogroms and expulsions of "Christ killers" and the depredations of the Inquisition, laying groundwork for the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish passions came not only from misinterpreters of faith but from the spiritual authorities themselves, from John Chrysostom, from Thomas Aquinas -- both saints of Christendom -- indeed, from Martin Luther, who turned against the Jews after they spurned his reformed Christianity...
...said it should be seen by everyone. Spielberg, less a promoter for his film than a proselytizer for a spiritual unification of Germans and Jews, agreed. "I feel it is time in Germany for this generation to teach its children," he said. "Education is the way to stop another Holocaust from happening...
...Germans were confronting their countrymen's bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand, many Israelis were reluctant to relive it. "People here live the Holocaust," says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef, 29. "They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time...
...some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California...