Defiance News

"We had heard about a Civil War Trail being successful in other states," said Susan Whitaker, Commissioner of the state Department of Tourist Development.

Sixty-five years after Bronislaw Firuta said goodbye to Joseph Bonder in war-torn Europe, Firuta is learning this weekend about the life Bonder has been able to craft in the United States.

Share on Facebook Joblo.com got their hands on the first official movie poster featuring Angelina Jolie from the upcoming film "Salt" by director Phillip Noyce and starring Liev Schreiber , Chiwetel Ejiofor and Marion McCorry .

Salt Salt, Evelyn Salt. CIA operative. Swore to fulfill her duty. Took oath to protect her country.

Longtime Westporter and author Nechama Tec today showed clips at the Westport Public Library from the movie "Defiance" she co-produced with her son, Roland, and starring Daniel Craig of James Bond fame.

In between his stagey duel to the death, currently on Broadway with Hugh Jackman and his no-pressure leap into Bond Numero 23, Daniel Craig has plans to winter ... in Toronto! Trying not to put too much of a type into his cast, the new-millennium 007 is confirmed to be here, come January, to put the psychological into a thriller, courtesy of ...

This holocaust story is a true original; a study of the human condition and the cost of collusion, writes Neil Sonnekus The Counterfeiters * * * * * Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky The strength of concentration-camp stories is that they usually deal with life-and-death decisions and their moral implications - there is no time for cosmetics.

Zvi Bielksi recalled some of his father's dying words: "I wish I could have saved more." Bielski's father was Zus Bielski, one of three Russian brothers who are widely known today for their heroic guerilla fight against Nazi forces and the rescue of 1,250 Jews during World War II.

Zvi Bielski never thinks of his family as victims at the hands of the Nazis. "I do not consider myself the son of a Holocaust survivor," he told a rapt audience of 220 at Chabad of Stamford Sunday afternoon.

For years, they slept in underground dugouts, unprotected from the rain and snow.

His family's story was revealed by the major motion picture, "Defiance," and yet Zvi Bielski continues to travel the world to tell others how his father and uncles saved more than 1,000 Jews in World War II.

Religious Life Submitted by Sandy Voice on 2009-10-26.   Some Jews in the Holocaust fought back.

Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in an Arthur Miller play. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Lost in Translation, is to make her Broadway debut later this year in the Arthur Miller play A View From the Bridge .

Liev Schreiber and Clay Frohman of Defiance to Speak at Largest Fundraising Event for the Nationa s Memorial to the Holocaust The United States Holocaust Memorial Museuma s 2009 Risa K. Lambert Chicago Luncheon will honor Chicagoans Judy and Bob Appelbaum and Marilyn Malkin and Larry Wolf for their longtime commitment to the nationa s memorial to ...

Shooting progresses on the upcoming film version of Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth .

First we had Paris and Paris , and while that short-lived romance fizzled ages ago, we now have yet another same-name coupling, thanks to Taylor Swift and ''Twilight'' and ''New Moon'' star Taylor Lautner.

Print is dead! all the bloggers have been saying for years. So why does New York have seven dailies? Media critics haven't much of an answer.

Richard Griffiths ordered its owner out of the theatre . Kevin Spacey snarled: " Tell them we're busy ." Now Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig have become the latest actors to tackle the toughest theatrical challenge of all: the mobile phone that simply won't shut up.

This weekend is Rosh Hashanah, which I understand from that Jon Stewart stand-up special is the Jewish new year.

At least once a year over the last quarter-century, a respected critic will prove conclusively that films about the Holocaust and the Nazi era have reached a saturation point and that movie and television audiences are suffering from a terminal case of Holocaust fatigue.