The most powerful film I saw in 2013 was “The Last of the Unjust,” screened at the New York Film Festival. Directed by the indefatigable Claude Lanzmann, it focuses on his 1975 interview with Benjamin Murmelstein, the ebullient last leader of the Jewish Council at Theresienstadt, who controversially strove to maintain the “model” concentration and transit camp near Prague on the principle that it would preserve the most lives. Read the full article here
