‘Life Is Strange’ examines lives of Jews in 1930s prewar Europe
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By this point, 70 years after the fact, anyone who has taken even a high school history course knows about the German concentration camps where 6 million Jews and 5 million others were killed at the hands of the Nazis.
But many are unaware of the types of lives European Jewish families lived before World War II. That’s why filmmaker Isaac Hertz interviewed many of the survivors, including several from Brooklyn, for his new film, “Life Is Strange,” which is playing at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan from Jan. 24-30.