Leopoldstadt - Wyndham's / Cinema Screening

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I've read back through the comments, and I noticed that some people mentioned the sheer number of characters, and how confusing it was to keep track of who everyone was in later scenes - I do agree that, especially in 1924 when the kids from 1899/1900 had suddenly grown up, keeping track was difficult. But again, I think that's the point. Being shown the sheer number of characters at the start, seeing that number being added to in 1924, and then seeing how few of them there are in 1955 is, I think, rather the point. We can be told frequently about the scale of the Holocaust - shown the numbers, and the lists, and the footage of concentration camps. But seeing all those people in the background of the final scene, as Leonard reads the names on the family tree, as Rosa and Nathan provide commentary as to their relatives' fates, really brings home the extraordinary scale of the loss. Intellectually, I knew going in that the global Jewish population is today, some 70+ years after the end of the Second World War, still significantly fewer in number than it was before the 'final solution' was implemented, but that still feels abstract. Seeing the reality of that industrialised death makes it human, and real. And it is a story we need to be told, as the survivors become fewer with each year that passes. As Grandma Emilia says at the start - (paraphrasing) 'you have to know who everyone was, talk about them whilst you're still alive, pass on their stories, otherwise everyone forgets who they were, and stops talking about them. And they are lost to history'.