[TomSmedley]

A similar case comes to mind -- child molesting pervert who made the movie Chinatown, the ultimate hymn to nihilism --- ROMAN POLANSKI (i knew the name would come to mind sooner or later!) was a survivor of Auschwitz, who took away from the experience a conviction that life is ultimately meaningless. (BTW -- assimilating Jews normally change their names. George's dad was an Esperantist, and the family name he adopted is the future tense of the Esperanto verb "to soar.")

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

ROMAN POLANSKI (i knew the name would come to mind sooner or later!) was a survivor of Auschwitz,

Polanski was never in Auschwitz. His mother died there, but Roman, aged 10, escaped from the Krakow ghetto and made it to the countryside, where a Polish farmer hid him through the rest of the war, although he had to sleep in the barn.