THE GREY ZONE

David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler

Lions Gate Films; Directed by Tim Blake Nelson

108 Minutes; 2002

Based on Tim Blake Nelson’s play this film deals with the difficult subject of Jewish oppression in the Auschwitz in 1944. Nelson tells the story of the Sonderkommandos, a group of Hungarian and Polish Jews who helped strip, gas and cremate other Jews. This duty afforded them otherwise unattainable luxuries such as better food, living quarters, alcohol, cigarettes and music but brought with it the overwhelming guilt of helping to destroy their own people. In the final days of the twelfth group of Sonderkomandos, they decided to destroy as many crematoriums as possible before they were captured and killed.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Bring in a Jewish group on your campus to discuss this difficult but important subject.