Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson has a trenchant childhood memory from the late 1940s of an uncle popping up at his Baltimore row house out of nowhere and staying with him in his bedroom for a couple of weeks.
“At night, he’d wake up throwing himself around the bed and talking in a language I didn’t understand,” said Levinson, who has directed classics such as “Diner,” “The Natural,” “Rain Man” and “Good Morning, Vietnam.” “He was having some sort of nightmares. This went on night after night. Then he left and they didn’t talk about him. I was five and I didn’t understand what was going on.”
He found out many years later his uncle had been in a concentration camp during World War II.
