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Scene from The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer. Madman Films

February 20, 2024

The Zone of Interest: the dark psychological insight of Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel is lost in the film adaptation

Paul Giles, Australian Catholic University

In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.

Images from Bernice Eisenstein’s ‘I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors’ and Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own.’ (National Film Board/Drawn & Quarterly)

November 2, 2023

Jewish women’s illustrated memoirs of the Holocaust cover matrilineal relationships

Ruth Panofsky, Toronto Metropolitan University

Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.

Jack Scanlon in the 2008 film adaptation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Maximum Film / Alamy Stock Photo

January 27, 2023

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adapting the book that the Auschwitz Museum said ‘should be avoided’

Nathan Abrams, Bangor University

An expert in the representation of the Holocaust on film explains the responsibility of the reader to educate themselves beyond the depth of a single work of fiction.

Still from ‘I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors,’ the film version of Toronto-born Bernice Eisenstein’s memoir. (National Film Board/YouTube)

October 26, 2021

Canadian writing about the Holocaust is haunted by the grim past

Ruth Panofsky, Toronto Metropolitan University

The past of the Holocaust still haunts the present and calls out to Canadian writers. Their works of poetry and prose are forms of remembrance that command our attention.

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