Samuel mentioned a verse of the Bible that made it all the more impossible for him to shovel the earth. The act of filling, even when forced, contributes to—or rather is inscribed in—the criminal act. The shooters shoot. The pushers, sometimes with leather gloves, sometimes with the heels of their boots, push the bodies of the dead and wounded Jews into the graves. The fillers bury both the dead and the living. Thus the filler is a conscript physically associated with the murder, more precisely with the very act of killing. And not all fillers would feel young Samuel’s pain.
