![]() The sonderkommandos were the Jewish prisoners who worked with the Nazi guards in the execution chambers and crematoria, herding the naked prisoners into the showers, the gas chambers, and dealing with the aftermath: the piles of dead bodies, the burning, the ashes thrown into a river, and the scrubbing clean of floors.Ī Hungarian-Jewish sonderkommando (Geza Rohrig) saves a dead boy from autopsy. Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’s visceral film is about the sonderkommandos, a sensitive subject. But you should see this one, which has won many international awards for Best Foreign Film. You may feel, like I did, that you don’t want to see any more. There have been so many films about the horrors of the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() Auschwitz concentration camp, World War 2, 1944.
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