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Marc Livecche

Marc LiVecche is a Ph.D. student in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

In the past Marc has led educational travel trips through Central Europe, primarily through the former Nazi concentration camps in Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Poland, exploring the history and theological implications of the holocaust and evil more generally.

Marc lives in Chicago, Illinois with wife Kara, son Dominic and new baby girl Naomi Shalom.

Darkness, the silver screen, and the human soul

Holocaust feature films are powerful because film is story, and good stories tend to be about individuals at odds with the world around them. The personal transformation of the complex and profoundly imperfect man in Schindler's List might very easily be our own story. We are all of us ruined palaces and glorious ruins.

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Darkness, the silver screen, and the human soul

Holocaust feature films are powerful because film is story, and good stories tend to be about individuals at odds with the world around them. The personal transformation of the complex and profoundly imperfect man in Schindler’s List might very easily be our own story. We are all of us ruined palaces and glorious ruins.