In the history of movies, there have been many that depitcted the Holocaust. The normal way of doing such a thing, describing and conveying a tragedy, is to vividly show the detail of the pain and suffering.
Discrimination is bad too.
However, this gets old and tiring after a while. Yes, Schindler's List was a great movie, but it's becoming overkill. It would have been thought impossible to take such an angle on the Holocaust, but Begnini does it, and he does it beautifully. But it did. It's completely authentic, never faky.