Lanzmann: “Death has always been a scandal.”

His latest interview, with Der Spiegel.
“… Salmen Lewenthal, a member of the Jewish work commando that had to dispose of the bones of those who were murdered and incinerated. He and fellow prisoner Salmen Gradowski secretly wrote a sort of chronicle of horror. They buried the pages near the crematoriums, where they were found after the war, half-decayed and partially illegible. This Lewenthal gave the best answer to the obscene question of why they, as Jews, were willing to do their horrible work, even though they, too, were doomed. “The truth is that one wants to live at any cost, one wants to live because one lives … because the whole world lives.”