Holocaust Tourist 

 
Sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith
and co-sponsored by StandWithUs.com
Day Sponsor: Spenser Partridge and PhotoArt Israel, LLC

2006, 10 minutes, English, Color, United Kingdom

“...fearless and important; is tourism changing our view of history?...”

This documentary about Holocaust tourism is set in post-Schindler’s List Poland. Filmmaker Jes Benstock uses animation to help uncover the way tourism and tourists are changing the way we understand the past.

“I wanted to make something which would help people understand the complexity of what is happening to the memory of the Holocaust,” he said. “I believe it’s happening to every human tragedy in living memory - the ‘heritage’ style repackaging of history. The biggest challenge was to condense this huge subject into 10 minutes.”

He has done it, and it opens the door to another important question about Europe explored in the next film.

Followed by: Ever Again