2019-10-01 BBC World Histories Magazine

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Jews in the Łód ́z ghetto, established by the German occupiers of Poland in February 1940, from where tens of thousands were deported

to extermination camps. “The genocide of Europe’s Jews has enormous contemporary resonance,” says Rebecca Clifford

A publicity image from the blockbuster movie Pearl Harbor (2001), recreating the Japanese attack in 1941 that prompted the US to join the Second

World War. ”After tailing off in the late 20th century, the number of films about the war produced each year is climbing again,” says Henry Hemming Æ