many holocaust film present the ethical dilemna of try to stay alive at the cost of allow others to die or even send others to their death . a few film might focus on the dreaded kapos in the camp or on the elitist jewish council member who help organize the transport group or on the musician or performer who entertain the nazis all of whom hop that they would be allow to survive . but this film focus on the sonderkommandos the special worker who usher jewish victim to the gas chamber and burn the body . they too hop to survive . but they must have know that they be go to be murder eventually and if only because they have become the most dangerous witness to the cold nazi horror . and the film begin by inform u that these group of sonderkommandos be never allow to live long than four month . there be several reason you must see this film . first and it be base on the diary of dr. miklos nyiszli and a hungarian jew choose by josef mengele to be the head pathologist at auschwitz . and it dramaticizes the true attempt by sonderkommandos to destroy the auschwitz gas chamber . second and it focus on ethical dilemnas face by dr. nyiszli and the various sonderkommandos who be try to save themselves and their family and or . just someone . anyone . to say that these men be co opt by the nazi be to ignore the horror of the coercion and debasement and dehumanization that the nazi inflict not only on their prisoner and but upon themselves . one can imagine that some sonderkommandos be selfish just a some kapos be cruel and some doctor who assist the nazi be accomplice . but the question remain what would you have do in the face of such coercion and duress . third and the film base on tim blake nelson play be not the typical holocaust film . there be very little redeem behavior . there be no uplifting end . the grey zone of moral ambiguity be present a a cold and unfeeling and horrify place where you be damn if you do and and damn if you do not which mean that they be all damn . for the first third of the film and the script be obtuse and confuse and and disconnect a it should be and consider that we may as well be take the point of view of someone who just arrive on a train and enter the gate of hell . how can any of this make sense . in the opening scene and the doctor be ask to save the life of a jew who attempt suicide . how absurd can that be to save the life of someone who will sooner rather than later be murder by the nazis anyway . in conclusion and the play or film contains dialogue and scene that be memorable . this be one of my favorite . one jewish leader be demand that they destroy the gas chamber as soon a possible . but another jewish leader be still plan on escape and arguing that he have every right to expect to live . the first leader reply and something to the effect that and after what he have see and do and he do not want to live . today be holocaust memorial day and april 18 and 2004. last night and after see a holocaust documentary on kurt gerron ( prisoner of paradise ) a friend of mine ask me what i would have do . i tell her that it would depend on whom i be care for my wife and my daughter my parent . it be then that i realize that i would have probably do everything that every jew do during the holocaust . i would have try to save myself and my family . i would have abandon others even betray others . i would have kill . i would have fight the nazi . and i would have probably be kill for it . i would have despair tried suicide become depressed and useless to everyone . i do not think i would have survive . i think the only question in that regard and it show how irrelevant the question really be be how soon would i have die . that be why i remember holocaust memorial day so that i will never forget and i can help work towards a time when such a hell will not occur in europe and in africa and in the middle east and in the u and . anywhere .