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The holocaust-based film, “The Grey Zone,” is based upon a play written by Tim Blake Nelson and named after a chapter in Primo Levi’s memoir “The Drowned and the Saved”. Nelson’s movie “The Grey Zone,” is a film that possesses a high emotional plea with a strong emphasis on heroic independence of Auschwitz’s twelfth Sonderkommando and the survivors that witnessed these atrocities. The title of the movie is very ambiguous, leaving the ability for a variety of different interpretations based upon the title of the film. My own view of the title’s meaning is that there are two meanings incorporated within the title of “They Grey Zone”. The literal sense of the title “grey zone” could be referred to the ash and the working conditions that surrounded the Jewish sonderkommando’s, which while burning millions of lifeless bodies, the air became filled with grey ash that covered their bodies and faces. For myself, the ambiguity of the “grey zone,” represents the moral question that the Jewish sonderkommando’s were faced with when choosing between one’s own self-preservation and assisting in the murder of millions or allowing yourself to be murdered and burned with millions of others. It represent