If you don’t have HBO, it’s time to get it. Not only are you missing out on the ability to watch Game of Thrones as it airs instead of illegally watching it later, you are also missing out on a great opportunity to be really sad and possibly cry, but also be really excited in the implicit goodness in humanity. Or whatever.
For on this April 8th, 2013, The Year of our Lord, you may watch a Holocaust documentary on the Home Box Office. You lucky duck.
It promises to be a sad but beautiful time.
It’s the story of the Kraus’s, an American-Jewish couple who led fifty lil Jew babes from Austria to the US during ye olde Holocaust, Harriet Tubman style. They face obstacles: like being Jews in Europe, the stupid bureaucracy of the American government, and nine-year-old Ethel Goldenblaum’s constant kvetching about a devastating lack of strudel in the Americas. (Distasteful joke? I can’t decide)
Narrated by the lovely Alan Alda, this documentary from Steven Presssman tugs at the heart strings with letters from Eleanor Krauss and interviews with some of the surviving rescued children.
You might not have time to get HBO, if not gather around a friend’s laptop for their HBO To Go account. Don’t miss this. Get your tissue box ready. It’s going to be a long night.
