Harvey Weinstein, the film producer and Hollywood studio executive, is to adapt a novel about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising for the big screen.
The revolt, in the spring of 1943, was the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the German army during the Second World War.
Prompted by the Nazis’ attempt to transport remaining ghetto residents to the Treblinka extermination camp, the uprising claimed the lives of about 13,000 Jews after the ghetto was burned down by SS troops.
Mr Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax Films, explained in online magazine Deadline this week that he was inspired to direct a film based on Leon Uris’s book, Mila 18, after reading it during a childhood trip to Israel to visit his great-grandmother.
