Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and the Russian 1985 movie, entitled Come and See show us the inhumanity of the Nazis.

To many millions throughout the world, the genocide and the holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews, Russians, and others is a distant memory. It is really preserved only in films and books of reminiscences. Books like Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and the Russian 1985 movie, entitled Come and See show us the inhumanity of the Nazis. It is hard to watch the Russian movie, which depicts the changing of a 14-year old boy, Fiyoria, …

…Schindler is not enough. The movie, for example, focuses for a good while on the pure enjoyment of the soldiers in their rage of killing. Why? One would have liked to get an explanation, not merely a depiction of the horror in Byelorus as well as Auschwitz. One watches smug Americans today, driving Mercedes and BMWs, Audis and VWs. The world's attitude seems to have changed. But, one cannot help wondering: Could it happen again?