Can the Holocaust Be Funny? New Film Says, "Why Not?"

The documentary, which Pearlstein began filming in 2011, had its genesis about 20 years earlier when she and her friend Kent Kirshenbaum discussed “Maus: A Survivor's Tale” by artist Art Spiegelman with an elderly Holocaust survivor.

The survivor, who had not read the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, was upset that it was published (and mistakenly assumed it was humorous).

“Her response was there is nothing funny about the Holocaust,” Pearlstein recalled. “She said, ‘You can't cover it in the funny pages.'”

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