(JTA) — Nechama Tec, a Holocaust survivor and historian whose book about a group of Jews in Belarus who successfully defied the Nazis was made into the 2008 film “Defiance,” died Aug. 3 in New York ...
In 1941, the Nazis were marauding their way through Eastern Europe, killing Jews along the way, burying them in mass graves. Compound that atrocity with the fact that some citizens were aiding the ...
When Ed Zwick appeared at a November screening of his new film, “Defiance,” he quoted some lines from a poem by W. H. Auden called “September 1, 1939”: Those lines are particularly relevant to the ...