Can there be any as yet untold Holocaust narratives?: Yes - Phoenix

You might think - I would have thought - by this time there are no possible new narratives about the Holocaust, but a German film crew - none familiar to me - surprised me with a wholly different and original Holocaust story in the 2015 film Phoenix, based on a novel that I believe is from the 60s. This period piece, set immediately after the end of World War II, follows a young woman survivor who is escorted to a hospital - location not clear, Switzerland maybe? - where a doctor does reconstructive surgery on her severely battered face. She comes out of the surgery looking pretty good (not realistic) but apparently quite different from the way she looked going in. A woman who works for some kind of Jewish resettlement gets her set up temporarily in Berlin, in the American quarter apparently, w/ the goal of moving on to Palestine. The woman, Nelly, goes out on the town, however, looking for her estranged husband, and finds him working in a nightclub. He doesn't recognize her but thinks she looks similar to his ex and approaches her about a scheme or scam: he knows his ex, who had been presumed dead, was due to collect a large inheritance from her deceased family members. He asks her to pose as his ex (that is, as herself), and then they will collect and split the inheritance. She goes along with this scheme - "learns" to imitate his wife's signature, her mannerisms, etc. I won't go into the conclusion, but just will say it's a pretty interesting premise that requires a tremendous amount of willing suspension of disbelief - he really wouldn't recognize his ex, even when they share a tiny apartment over weeks or months? If you can buy in, however, the film raises questions about identity and, more important, about the strange and profound guilt Germans felt post-war: the scenes of Nelly re-encountering those she knew before the war, shocked to find her still alive, are haunting in their placidity and lack of affect.