Herz, the 82-year-old Vietnam protester, was an immigrant of Jewish descent and had reportedly spent time in an internment camp during World War II.

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The photographer was arrested and spent three months in an internment camp in Clichy, France, before being released and sailing for America in 1940.

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His father, who died in 2003, served as a translator helping the U.S. military during the war, while his family lived in an internment camp.

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Poland was then under martial law, and Lech Walesa was being held in an internment camp, so the story would be that the Nobel winner was in jail.

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The film's unique plot follows an Italian Jew through his marriage to his family's internment in a Nazi death camp, where he shields his young son from reality by creating an elaborate game.

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