Facing History and Ourselves: Examining Holocaust and Human Behavior
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?
