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Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2015.“The Holocaust over the years has become an abstraction. For me, it’s more a face, a human face. Let’s not forget this face,” Hungarian director László Nemes said when he received a Golden Globe Award for his debut film, Son of Saul, in 2016. In Son of Saul, the camera never leaves the side of Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian Jew, and a member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, forced by the Nazis to perform crucial tasks in the extermination process: guiding Jews into the gas chambers, removing the bodies, bringing them to the crematoria, and disposing of their ashes in the nearby river. On Saul’s face, which remains expressionless except for the smallest signs of humanity that his existence as a Sonderkommando allows for, we see reflected the horrors that surround him. Through witnessing the fate, and the face, of one man, the viewer is encouraged to imagine the vastness of his suffering and that of his fellow Jews; a vastness that is so great that it cannot be represented, except perhaps through close attention to the individual and, ultimately, irreplaceable human face.In How They Lived: The Everyday Lives of Hungarian
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Dec 11, 2017
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