To find a novel approach to the Holocaust is definitely a challenge, and yet director Peter Bebjak has told an unfamiliar but revealing story in The Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s submission for best international film of 2020.
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the movie in the U.S., and although it can’t be described as an entertaining watch, it does retrieve a part of history worth honoring.
Viewers today may not realize that one of the things preventing global outrage over the Nazis’ genocidal program was that the extent of the atrocities was not widely known while the war was raging.
It could be argued — and it could well be true — that pervasive anti-Semitism throughout the world would have prevented any other actions being taken to halt.
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