In this Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive
"Persian Lessons" is based on a short story by the screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, who specializes in tragicomedies.
The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is pictured during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/NORA SAVOSNICK)ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA