In December 1982, the movie Sophie’s Choice was released. It starred Meryl Streep as a Polish woman in World War II, who grapples with having survived Auschwitz where a Nazi guard forced her to choose which one of her two children would be put to death. It was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with the Holocaust. Almost 40 years after the war ended, the public finally seemed ready to see the horror of the genocide depicted in art. The film won Meryl Streep her second best actress Oscar. But not everyone was happy with it. Holocaust...