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An episode from 06/06/2024: Tonight, I share two stories from the Shoah, or Holocaust.

The first is about the Sonderkommando, those prisoners forced to do the most devastating work in the concentration camps. During a 2015 Fresh Air interview with L\xe1szl\xf3 Nemes and G\xe9za R\xf6hrig about their 2015 film, Son of Saul, a brief story about an actual Sonderkommando member is told. It remains one of the most overwhelming minutes that I have ever heard.

In the second part, I read from Daniel Mendelsohn\u2019s 2006 book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. The book is Mendelsohn\u2019s attempt to discover what happened to six members of his family who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the section I read from is about the difficulty of truly entering the mind and situation of a sixteen year-old girl, who is rounded up with a thousand other Jews, and murdered.

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