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When representing the Holocaust; the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is; at least in part; rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." And despite the fact that he later reversed his position; the conservative opposition to all "artistic" representations of the Holocaust remains powerful; leading to the insistent demand that it be represented; as it really was. And yet; whether it's the girl in the red dress or a German soldier belting out Bach on a piano during the purge of the ghetto in Schindler's List; or the use of tracking shots in the documentaries Shoah and Night and Fog; all genres invent or otherwise embellish the narrative to locate meaning in an event that we commonly refer to as "unimaginable." This wide-ranging book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema; covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres.