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- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Purdue University.
- ISSN
- 1534-5165
Abstract
This article considers the motion picture <i>The Ninth Day</i> (2004, dir. Volker Schlöndorff), and the manner in which Father Jean Bernard's experience in Dachau has been portrayed in the film. It looks at the experience of one Christian (or rather, one group of Christians, the Catholic priests at Dachau) against the backdrop of a Nazi concentration camp that has become symbolic of the Nazi period and the Holocaust it spawned. By examining the singular experience of this Catholic priest in Dachau, we can begin to arrive at newer appreciations of how historical memory of a shared Christian and Jewish past can be understood by current and future generations.
Journal
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Apr 9, 2011