20.06 Long-Lost Soviet Holocaust Films Under New Spotlight
WASHINGTON, June 19 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) Nearly a dozen long-lost, rarely seen Soviet films and scores of screenplays that were never produced about the persecution of Jews during World War II have been revived to offer decades-old evidence of a side of the Holocaust few people recognize today.
From the dusty archives of Moscow and elsewhere across Russia, the works are featured in The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe, a startling new book released by Rutgers University Press this week.
Those films have been pretty much just erased from history, really, said the books author Olga Gershenson, an associate professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
If you think about the holocaust films in the US and Europe, people immediately think,
