Holocaust stories matter
The actors explore the importance of each new generation learning from the Holocaust.

Transcript

Stellan Skarsgård (Baumgarten)
There's no reason to deal with history for history's sake. It is only important to deal with it when we can learn something from it. We have so much to learn from this time.

Rupert Graves (Mordechai)
There's always a question about how much anybody ever learns from history, how much you learn from your own mistakes. It's a lesson of how humans can become evil when they believe in an ideal, an ideal that you can make monsters of people.

Antony Sher (Akiba)
Well I just think it is terribly important to keep doing pieces about the Holocaust again and again and again. It is so important for every new generation to have new pieces about the Holocaust so that they don't just get used to it. It's not a subject we must ever get used to because it has already happened again in places like Rwanda and the old Yugoslavia. It will keep happening unless we learn the lessons of it.