Dead Still Cry Out the Story of a Combat Cameraman

Helen Lewis was just a child when she found an old suitcase in a cupboard under the stairs. Inside it were the most horrifying photographs--a record of the atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They belonged to her father, Mike, a British paratrooper and combat cameraman who had filmed the camp's liberation. Those first images of the Nazis' crimes, shot by Mike Lewis and others like him, shocked the world. The child of Jewish refugees, Mike had grown up in London's East End and experienced anti-Semitism first hand in the England of the 1930s. In the Dead Still Cry Out, his daughter uses photographs and film to reconstruct Mike's early life and experience of the war, while exploring broader questions too: what it means to belong; how history and memory are shaped--and how anyone can deny the Holocaust in the face of such powerful evidence.