Colin Murphy: The only way to escape legacy of genocide is to show empathy

It was a week to think about the Holocaust — which was finally defeated with the liberation of Auschwitz, 80 years ago last Monday. But how to write about the Holocaust? The filmmaker Stanley Kubrick abandoned his own attempt to tell a story of the Holocaust, having come to believe it wasn’t possible to adequately capture it. But what about Schindler’s List , he was asked.

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