Spielberg Challenges Holocaust Deniers With Docu-film.

20-10-2006 08:07

Spielberg Challenges Holocaust Deniers With Docu-film.... Movie-maker Steven Spielberg insists his new documentary will silence Holocaust deniers forever, because it includes the real-life accounts of Jewish survivors in eastern Europe.

Spell Your Name merges memories of victims and the Ukrainians who sheltered them in a moving film about the World War II atrocities, which saw an estimated six million Jews murdered.

And director Spielberg, whose own grandparents came from Ukraine, hopes the haunting accounts will serve as a warning in future conflicts too.

He says, "In order to create an undeniability about the Holocaust, these survivors, 52,000 of them, need to be shown to students all over the world.

"Tolerance is born of education. Everything comes from what we learn. It all depends on who our teachers are.... All hatred starts with fear. And we have experienced a century of fear and I fear we are going into another century of heightened fear."