The cultish appeal of midnight movies expanded after Jim Sharman’s “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a camp spectacle that invites audience participation, opened at the Waverly in 1976. For more than two years, the Bernholzes found safety at the farm and in various forest hide-outs. But on March 15, 1943, Aaron Bernholz was killed by a Ukrainian nationalist as Berl sat next to him. “My father’s last word to me was ‘Run,’ ” Mr. Barenholtz said in various accounts of his childhood. He survived, lived in a refugee camp in Austria, and immigrated with his mother to New York in 1947.

Source: International New York Times July 05, 2019 18:00 UTC