On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular culture. At the same time, this symbol of evil is being transformed and ope
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an occasion to face the enormity of the Holocaust, the inheritance of family
A few years ago, actor Jesse Eisenberg was writing a movie about two men on a road trip in Mongolia when an ad popped up on his screen, offering "Auschwitz tours, with lunch." "I clicked on the ad and it took me to a site for what you would imagine ...
It’s kind of like if Bernie Madoff sold Pokemon cards.” That’s how Bill Maher described the concept of meme coins, something that’s been in the news a lot lately. More broadly, it was a statement that combined culture,
played by Jesse Eisenberg, “Screw it. We’re owed this.” “I love that scene,” said Ari Richter, the author and illustrator of “Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,” a “graphic family ...
played by Jesse Eisenberg, “Screw it. We’re owed this.” “I love that scene,” said Ari Richter, the author and illustrator of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz, a “graphic family ...
Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, the film follows two relatives as they make a pilgrimage to their grandmother’s home in Poland.
The pair book onto a tour conducted by Oxford-educated, non-Jewish guide James (Will Sharpe). They’re joined by Marcia, a freshly divorced “lady who lunches” (Jennifer Grey), retired middle-class couple Mark and Diane (Liza Sadowy and Daniel Oreskes) and Ologe (Kurt Egyiawan), a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.
Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network,” so it made sense to him that he should meet the Facebook founder in person as he was preparing for the role.
Tremble stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Amazon’s Wilderness) and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Netflix’s Kleo) as Solomon Weiner and Michael Podchlebnik, two Jewish prisoners who escaped the Chelmno extermination camp and provided the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.
Video shows the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet army in January 1945. (Source: British Movietone via APTN)
Actor, screenwriter and director Jesse Eisenberg will join us live on stage after the film to discuss his much acclaimed and awards nominated touching comedy drama. Wheelchair spaces, free companion seats may now be booked online. Please select the ...