Jesse Eisenberg

That's exactly it. So, you know, this place, Majdanek, is in Lublin. So it's in the southeast of the country. Lublin is this really bustling, gorgeous, vibrant college town. And five minutes away from this, again, gorgeous, bustling, you know, cosmopolitan college town is this death camp. And when I say five minutes, that's not hyperbole.

That's exactly it. So, you know, this place, Majdanek, is in Lublin. So it's in the southeast of the country. Lublin is this really bustling, gorgeous, vibrant college town. And five minutes away from this, again, gorgeous, bustling, you know, cosmopolitan college town is this death camp. And when I say five minutes, that's not hyperbole.

Like, you drive five minutes down the road, and you are in this death camp. And so... It's not a real known one, but what makes Majdanek really interesting, as opposed to Auschwitz, is that it's so far east that the Russians liberated the camp before the Nazis could really destroy it.

Like, you drive five minutes down the road, and you are in this death camp. And so... It's not a real known one, but what makes Majdanek really interesting, as opposed to Auschwitz, is that it's so far east that the Russians liberated the camp before the Nazis could really destroy it.

Like, you drive five minutes down the road, and you are in this death camp. And so... It's not a real known one, but what makes Majdanek really interesting, as opposed to Auschwitz, is that it's so far east that the Russians liberated the camp before the Nazis could really destroy it.

So the other camps, as you go further west in Europe, were destroyed by the Nazis as the Soviets or the Americans liberated the camps. But this one, as we say in the movie, is kind of well-preserved, for lack of a better phrase. It looks like it was liberated that morning.

So the other camps, as you go further west in Europe, were destroyed by the Nazis as the Soviets or the Americans liberated the camps. But this one, as we say in the movie, is kind of well-preserved, for lack of a better phrase. It looks like it was liberated that morning.

So the other camps, as you go further west in Europe, were destroyed by the Nazis as the Soviets or the Americans liberated the camps. But this one, as we say in the movie, is kind of well-preserved, for lack of a better phrase. It looks like it was liberated that morning.

Yeah. So, like, I imagine you're probably familiar with, like, the reputation that Poland has amongst, like, kind of American Jews, which is that, you know, I grew up hearing, oh, they're anti-Semitic and, you know, they're, you know, all the death camps were there, you know. But my experience there was so different. My experience there was really different.

Yeah. So, like, I imagine you're probably familiar with, like, the reputation that Poland has amongst, like, kind of American Jews, which is that, you know, I grew up hearing, oh, they're anti-Semitic and, you know, they're, you know, all the death camps were there, you know. But my experience there was so different. My experience there was really different.

Yeah. So, like, I imagine you're probably familiar with, like, the reputation that Poland has amongst, like, kind of American Jews, which is that, you know, I grew up hearing, oh, they're anti-Semitic and, you know, they're, you know, all the death camps were there, you know. But my experience there was so different. My experience there was really different.

kind of revelatory in the following way. We were going to all these sites of Jewish history, of Jewish, you know, horror. And all the people that I met who were working there were like, you know, 90% non-Jews, people who had spent their lives doing far more to memorialize my family's history than I or anybody in my family is doing.

kind of revelatory in the following way. We were going to all these sites of Jewish history, of Jewish, you know, horror. And all the people that I met who were working there were like, you know, 90% non-Jews, people who had spent their lives doing far more to memorialize my family's history than I or anybody in my family is doing.

kind of revelatory in the following way. We were going to all these sites of Jewish history, of Jewish, you know, horror. And all the people that I met who were working there were like, you know, 90% non-Jews, people who had spent their lives doing far more to memorialize my family's history than I or anybody in my family is doing.

And I just had this great feeling of indebtedness to the Poles who have done a really good job of preserving a lot of this history. I know they're criticized in various ways and the government's criticized in various ways, but like... The Germans built these camps in Poland and the Poles are still left with these things, you know, and they're really well done to preserve Jewish history there.

And I just had this great feeling of indebtedness to the Poles who have done a really good job of preserving a lot of this history. I know they're criticized in various ways and the government's criticized in various ways, but like... The Germans built these camps in Poland and the Poles are still left with these things, you know, and they're really well done to preserve Jewish history there.

And I just had this great feeling of indebtedness to the Poles who have done a really good job of preserving a lot of this history. I know they're criticized in various ways and the government's criticized in various ways, but like... The Germans built these camps in Poland and the Poles are still left with these things, you know, and they're really well done to preserve Jewish history there.

And I just felt this kind of like just open hearted indebtedness to that.

And I just felt this kind of like just open hearted indebtedness to that.

And I just felt this kind of like just open hearted indebtedness to that.