More in ‘Kasztner’s train’

Film

Shades of Gray

A new film shines a light on Rudolph Kasztner, controversial Holocaust-era figure
By Liel Leibovitz | 7:00 AM Oct 29, 2009

More than any other event in our collective consciousness, the Holocaust comes to us in high contrast, the darkest malice all the more menacing when juxtaposed with its victims, powerless and pure. We think of jackbooted Nazis marching in lockstep and of that little boy in the pea coat and the cap lifting his hands ...