Countless video games depict the second world war. Most guide players towards the battlefield, with its widescreen explosions and opportunities for sharpshooting heroics. Few head for the death camps. The video game medium is perhaps seen as too playful, too flippant, too lowbrow to approach the 20th century’s looming vortex of atrocity. The Light in the Darkness, a new game available for free as an educational tool, follows a an émigré Polish Jewish family – a husband and wife and their son – living in France during the Nazi occupation. It does not make it as far as the gas...