Jewish Groups Criticize Amazon Series 'Hunters'

By Chelsea Anderson
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Auschwitz Memorial and the Holocaust Educational Trust, among other groups, say the show risks 'fueling Holocaust denial'

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Jewish groups including Auschwitz Memorial and the Holocaust Educational Trust have said the new Amazon Prime Video series Hunters risks "fueling Holocaust denial" and is "an act of dangerous foolishness."

Hunters is a period drama themed around a group of Nazi hunters in 1970.

Series producer David Weil defended the show, telling BBC, "It was not a documentary and never purported to be." Weil's grandmother was a Holocaust survivor. 

Weil also said he decided to "fictionalize events because he did not want to misrepresent the suffering of real people."

The scene receiving the most criticism is the portrayal of the inmates at Auschwitz playing a gruesome game of human chess. About 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, according to auschwitz.org.  

Chelsea Anderson
Chelsea Anderson
Assistant Content Producer

Chelsea Anderson has been with Future for two years. She started as an intern with NewBay Media/Multichannel News in 2015. During her time she wrote bylined articles and program reviews as well as helped with research graphics for the magazine. She later became News Assistant for Broadcasting & Cable in 2017 until 2020 when she became Assistant Content Producer. Chelsea graduated from Niagara University in 2016 with a Bachelor's in Communication Studies and a double minor in Writing Studies and Sociology.