Film Review of Grey Zone

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A concentration camp in the Holocaust was something more like a torture chamber for everyone involved. Auschwitz was considered one of the largest concentration camps and was responsible for many lives. In, The Grey Zone, a Jewish doctor and a group of Jewish men known as the “Sonderkommando” found themselves in a moral grey zone. There were many people in this time who may have found themselves confused and at a loss of what to do, especially those directly involved, like the Sonderkommando. Not much can be compared to what those people felt, but there are some similar instances of compromised morality, like that of the sewer worker in Kristine Keren’s story, “The Hidden Children,” where he wanted to help but all that he could do was hide families in a disgusting disease ridden sewer. These people were in charge of different things but still all felt the same sense of shame. The doctor was in charge of the selection of healthy and able bodies to live, therefore determining who dies and was also in charge of harmful experiments done on many different prisoners, in exchange for a comfortable lifestyle and the safety of the ones he loved. This made the doctor feel a certain way, as I am sure it would make anyone feel. It is clearly expressed throughout the movie in many different ways; however you could tell that his main priority the whole time was his family’s safety. The Sonderkommando had the pleasure of working in the crematoria and disposing of the dead bodies of their fellow inmates who had been killed for no reason. These people were in charge of killing, burning and disposing of their own kind just so they could live comfortably for the next few months until they were killed and a new group was selected. This left the men of the group in a moral grey area. In this particular case in Auschwitz, it made them conjure up a revolt and blow up a
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