The Problem with “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

I rarely like – if that is even the right word – movies about the Holocaust.  Such movies almost invariably invite us to identify with a small number of Jews imprisoned in the concentration camps, turning the millions of others (unintentionally, to be sure) into a nameless, faceless backdrop of suffering that makes the fate of “our” Jews all the … Continue reading The Problem with “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”