"I read yesterday that the commandant of Auschwitz’s private villa has been sold to the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based nonprofit, and is being turned into a part of the camp visitors can enter. It’s hard to describe the absurdity of the disconnect of the beautiful house with a backdrop of the most organized mass murder perpetrated in the 20th century. The house literally overlooks an early Nazi gas chamber as well as domino rows of barracks where hundreds of thousands of Jews and other prisoners starved and died. That’s perhaps why the film about the house released that year, “The Zone of Interest,” is so powerful — it doesn’t try to describe the indescribable, it merely presents you with audio and images that express the twisted story."