Sign up for FREE

A Basic Feeling of Human Dignity

Last updated over 1 year ago

4 questions

Note from the author:

Facing History and Ourselves: Examining Holocaust and Human Behavior

Poem

Required

5

Required

5

Required

5

Required

5

Creating A Found Poem

Question 1

1.

What conditions are necessary for someone to be able to feel a “basic feeling of human dignity”? How did Germans deprive those imprisoned in the camps of this dignity?

Question 2

2.

What is most striking to you about Lévy-Hass’s November 8, 1944, diary entry? What did she mean when she wrote, “We have not died, but we are dead”?

Question 3

3.

What role does memory play in your sense of dignity? What role does it play in your sense of identity? How are identity and dignity related?

Question 4

4.

To what are Saturdays devoted in the camp, according to Lévy-Hass’s November 18, 1944, diary entry? How do those activities seek to build or restore a sense of human dignity for some of those imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen? Are the Saturday activities acts of resistance? Why or why not?