1. Schindler’s List (1993)
Schindler’s List is based on the remarkable true story of Oskar Schindler, a German factory owner who saved over a thousand Polish Jews by giving them jobs during the Second World War.
2. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a film adaptation of the book by the same name, written by John Boyne. The movie tells the story of a German boy named Bruno, who befriends a young Jewish inmate while his father works at a Nazi concentration camp.
3. Denial (2016)
Denial tells the true story of Deborah Lipstadt, an American professor who was sued for defamation in the ’90s for writing in her book that British scholar David Irving was a holocaust denier. Lipstadt’s legal team consisted of Holocaust specialists and professors, including University of Waterloo professor Robert Jan van Pelt.
4. The Pianist (2002)
The Pianist tells the true story of Polish pianist and composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto with his family after the German occupation of Poland.
5. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
Sophie’s Choice stars Meryl Streep as Zofia “Sophie” Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor who moves to Brooklyn and is faced with confronting her horrific past.
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