Word: segev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benumbed awe and gratitude. But, as in the U.S., 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...
...entirely neutral circumstances. During the initial investigation, they picked Demjanjuk from a photo spread in which his picture was disproportionately large. They identified him in court after the Israeli media had thoroughly covered his extradition. "Of course the survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen him testify in America." Israel's Supreme Court now knows what the trial court did not: that there were two men, Ivan Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko. Judging by photos of the two as young men, they shared...