Unpacked chatted with Jordan Mechner about the decades-long journey to bring “Replay” to life, the research work behind tracking down long-lost family details, and how telling his family’s story helped him better understand his own.
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is about remembering the six million murdered Jews, honoring survivors, and making sure their stories don’t fade.
When most of the serious Jewish representation is about the Holocaust, it can unintentionally perpetuate a narrative that antisemitism is confined to the past, not the present.