Breaking new ground, video game engages with Holocaust

Tackling one of the greatest human tragedies, a new video game has been released in which players adopt roles in a Jewish family torn from their home during the Holocaust and sent to an internment camp.

“The Light in the Darkness” claims to be the first video game to accurately portray the Holocaust, which took the lives of some six million Jews during World War II.

Numerous games have World War II themes — including the big-selling “Call of Duty” series — but the fact that the Holocaust is barely mentioned troubled 36-year-old Luc Bernard, creator of the new game.