How do you tell a tale that's been told thousands of times before, orally passed down from survivors, researched and written about in hundreds of books, and put to film multiple times? You have to find another way in, to reach future generations and those right now, who are sadly forgetting the horrors that occurred, and many of whom can't even explain what the Holocaust was. Yes, the writer has "glossed over" the graphic impact of skeletal victims, cattle cars, mass graves, and firing squads, to tell a quiet, but no less devastating version of the story, as seen through the eyes of two 8 year old boys, One, with his family, the Father who has been "promoted" to run an unnamed "work camp", his sister, and mother who may not know as much as we assume, but slowly come to realize the full extent of the evil they are in the midst of. The other is on the camp side of the electrified wire, helping the older "farmers" as they build a hut, seen from afar by the Commandant's son from his second story window, and finally meeting face to face when the young boy goes exploring. Yes, it is a bit of a reach, but, it is the "In" to an examination of how people, before the era of 24/7 information inundation, could be told what to believe, even to the point of ignoring what they were seeing with their own eyes, especially when it involved loved ones and immediate acquaintances. Yes, it is heart wrenching to watch innocence manipulated and lost, just as it is to contemplate how such evil could be regarded as normal and acceptable. Even more so as the horror isn't as much graphic, as it is palpable when you see the terrible realization dawning in the eyes of 2 young boys, a mother, and yes, even the Father as he sees what his "solution" has wrought.