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UN screens new documentary on Holocaust, 'Steal a Pencil for Me'

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a screening of "Steal a Pencil For Me," a documentary based on the love letters exchanged by two Holocaust survivors in concentration camps during World War II. Both survivors attended.

Academy Award-nominated director Michele Ohayon said the letters of Jack and Ina Polak, collected in a book in 2000 by the same name as the film, "put a face" on the Holocaust for her...
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