Susan Subak, at The Blogs

Apr 23, 2023, 3:49 PM

In Transatlantic’s Varian Fry story, Jews are not helping their own

Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in "Transatlantic." (Courtesy of Anika Molnar/Netflix via JTA)

The Netflix WWII drama leaves out Jewish organizations' vital support and paints religious Jews as too inept to survive

About Me

Susan Subak is an environmental researcher and the author of the book, Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis (University of Nebraska Press, 2010).