Steven Spielberg is a fan of this movie
"I was moved to tears and deep thoughts while watching "Loving the Dead". It is another important brick in the monument that must be rebuilt to remind our children of the tremendous contributions and sacrifices Jewish people have made all over the world. It further inspires me in my quest to make "Schindler's List" a film. Thank you for your film. All my best, Steven Spielberg.
Mira Hamermesh was far from home during the war, but her parents were there. Her father was sent to Auschwitz, her mother died in the Lodz ghetto. She revisits the house, looks up at a window where her parents had added some fitments, still there; opens a door in the ghetto, where they lived in a room with six other families, writing their letters, praising God that she is not with them, their only consolation in apartness. In the European backyard, home had shrunk to this.