It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done because what it was possible to perpetrate yesterday can be attempted again tomorrow, can overwhelm ourselves and our children. Watch a film clip from 'Son of Saul,' starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár and Urs Rechn. “This institution represented an attempt to shift on to others - specifically, the victims - the burden of guilt, so that they were deprived of even the solace of innocence. A Jewish worker in a Nazi death camp encounters the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. Tension surges when Saul finds a boy who has survived the gas. While Levi observes that “it remains true that in the Lager and outside, there exist grey, ambiguous persons, ready to compromise”, he does not condemn, instead challenging his reader to imagine for himself or herself such a death of the soul. We see only what Saul sees, the more heinous acts blurred in the background, but all the more terrifying for that. In the second chapter, called The Grey Zone, of his last book, The Drowned and the Saved (1986), Primo Levi meditates upon them hesitantly, grievously. Yet their collaboration in the death camps has always been a difficult subject. The Sonderkommando, dead men walking, were perhaps even more victims than those killed at once. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Save The Children BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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