Do you think the film captured, metaphorically or literally, the ways in which Jews conceived of their own experiences of survival and their path to a homeland after the war? If so, how? If not, why not? Did Bauer and Patt’s articles illuminate any aspects of the film in particular?
After viewing the film The Illegals* and reading this week’s assigned secondary source readings, please consider to what extent the film conveys realistically (in your view) the plight of Jewish survivors in post-war Europe and beyond, as portrayed to some extent in the readings you’ve completed this week and in the past few weeks (and […]