26 Jan

(1962) In 1946 Holland, a young girl who barely survived Auschwitz concentration camp is desperate to reach Palestine. ...

25 Jan

(1937) A French WWI antiwar film and a cinema classic, co-written and directed by Jean Renoir, none other than the son of the impressionist painter. ...

25 Jan

On our last evening the "Siblings in Sweden" decided to do a "Pub Crawl" of our parents' favorite wartime Stockholm hangouts ...

12 Jan

Since I first wrote about Berns Salonger in 2011 I have been to this famous Stockholm restaurant three times! It was a favorite spot for my parents during World War II....

12 Jan

(1953) An American soldier falls in love with a Parisian girl during the U.S. liberation of Paris. He wants to marry her, but his commanding officer is against it. ...

01 Jan

(1946, 1960, 2011) Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was a Jewish physician in Hungary who in June of 1944 was sent with his wife and young daughter to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Once he arrived he volunteered to work as a doctor and ended up...