Word: holocaust
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...Holocaust is such an event. It is a topic -- the systematic destruction of European Jewry under Nazism -- that American movies have taken up gingerly, and only occasionally. It has been left mostly to the documentarians and to Europeans like Agnieszka Holland, who made the devastating Europa, Europa. But these are art-house films with small audiences...
...also, and correctly, insists the movie "isn't at all untrue to the spirit of Schindler . . . to that ambiguity that attracted me to him in the first place -- the scoundrel savior." More important, the movie arrives when it is very obviously needed. The few survivors of the Holocaust are old now, and dying, and the task of remembering, of testifying, must pass to members of Spielberg's generation and others still younger. It is a hopeful sign, perhaps, that the new Holocaust Museum in Washington is being taxed by more visitors than it can handle. It is a less hopeful...
...this climate, Spielberg claims "no high expectations for the box-office potential" of his movie. But these days, acts of conscience (Spielberg will donate any profits, or "blood money" as he calls it, to Holocaust charities) have their curiosity value, not to mention Oscar value. He may yet be surprised by his film's power to create answering acts of conscientiousness on the part of moviegoers. He may be surprised -- happily and deservedly...
...effort to allow people to discuss theissue of Holocaust revisionism and the running ofthe advertisement, the Justice is running aspecial issue Tuesday dedicated to the topic...
...Holocaust revision is a horrible affront andmockery to the millions who perished in World WarII," said Jeremy A. Dauber '95, chair of thecoordinating of council of the Harvard-RadcliffeHillel