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Holocaust

More VIFF picks: films to see Monday and Tuesday

A young boy from Africa is on the run from police in Le Havre, the French port city and this charming film playing at VIFF.

The Debt, Blank City, Beauty Day, Crazy, Stupid Love (again) and three unpreviewed new ones

Helen Mirren tries to correct an old mistake in the thriller with a Holocaust theme, The Debt. (Read more)

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Sarah’s Key, Vincere, Cosmonaut and Our Idiot Brother

Guy Pearce and his flashlight stalk the creatures his daughter stirred up in the basement in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. (read more)

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

It was completely arresting and so innovative with its narrative and take on these issues.

Virtues of Memory: six decades of creativity from Holocaust survivors

At the end of World War II, concentration camp survivors began to make art.

A former UBC student describes a little about the view of the Gaza flotilla raid from inside Israel

"I'm upset because I feel like issues and stunts like this pull the rug out on any possibility to really solve the issue at hand, which is this protracted conflict," a UBC graduate living in Israel s

Favourite Books of 2009: The Kindly Ones and Suite Francaise

I had a lot of books on my bedside table this year. Two stand out.

Acid Free America?

Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, rolled up to the Blaine border crossing in the summer of 2006 as he had hundreds of times in his career. At 66, his gray hair, neat beard, and...