The Making and Messages of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” — In April 1942, the Nazis forcibly sent Filip Müller, among thousands more, to Auschwitz. Born in the Czechoslovak Republic, Müller was Jewish and 20 years old when the Nazis deported him from his home. Among the earliest to arrive at Auschwitz, Müller almost immediately became part of the Sonderkommando, work…