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The two dozen Holocaust survivors first-time filmmaker Isaac Hertz interviews in his collection of oral histories Life Is Strange vary widely in notoriety — Israeli president Shimon Peres and children's author Uri Orlev appear, along with a panoply of bigwig academics and family friends of Hertz's — but all tell absorbing tales of their experiences during the war and subsequent emigration to Israel or the United States.

Hertz gives equal time to their happy memories, as if to show the horrors they experienced neither erased the sunnier days before nor ruined their lives thereafter. He intercuts the interview footage with archival clips of Jewish life both during festive occasions and in the misery of the camps.

Hertz hasn't framed his subjects' storie...