What does it mean to live a dignified life during the Holocaust and in everyday life? I believe to live a dignified life an individual must seek knowledge to achieve strength. This knowledge can be attained through experience or by being true to the experience that is faced. Living a dignified life means living true to our experiences, acquiring knowledge and organizing ourselves to obtain strength, while also having respect for others.
Levi comes to a realization that his instinct for cleanliness has dissipated within the first week of arriving at Auschwitz. When walking through the washroom, Levi comes upon his older friend named Steinlauf. Steinlauf asks Levi why he does not wash up. Levi internally responds to himself by saying, “I would probably live a shorter time, because to wash is an effort, a waste of energy and warmth” (40). Levi realized that washing up for the ten …show more content…
Saul Ausländer lived a dignified life by trying to give dignity back to the dead and the dying. On a day of work in the gas chambers, Saul came upon the body of a boy who was still breathing after being gassed. Saul tries to convince the prison doctor not to perform an autopsy on the boy. He doesn't want the doctor to perform an autopsy because he wants to give the boy a proper Jewish burial. Saul realizes that it was right for the Nazi physician to suffocate the boy to end his suffering, although it wasn't ethical to gas the innocent, to begin with. Saul finds the strength to ask the physician not to perform the autopsy. Saul has dignity in his life because he was trying to properly bury a boy that he did not even know. With this, he showed respect for the innocent that have fallen. The pacing of the film, Son of Saul is intense. The film never subsides from the tone of inevitability set in the early stages of the movie. Such as when Saul tries to find a rabbi to give the body of a young boy a proper Jewish
Levi comes to a realization that his instinct for cleanliness has dissipated within the first week of arriving at Auschwitz. When walking through the washroom, Levi comes upon his older friend named Steinlauf. Steinlauf asks Levi why he does not wash up. Levi internally responds to himself by saying, “I would probably live a shorter time, because to wash is an effort, a waste of energy and warmth” (40). Levi realized that washing up for the ten …show more content…
Saul Ausländer lived a dignified life by trying to give dignity back to the dead and the dying. On a day of work in the gas chambers, Saul came upon the body of a boy who was still breathing after being gassed. Saul tries to convince the prison doctor not to perform an autopsy on the boy. He doesn't want the doctor to perform an autopsy because he wants to give the boy a proper Jewish burial. Saul realizes that it was right for the Nazi physician to suffocate the boy to end his suffering, although it wasn't ethical to gas the innocent, to begin with. Saul finds the strength to ask the physician not to perform the autopsy. Saul has dignity in his life because he was trying to properly bury a boy that he did not even know. With this, he showed respect for the innocent that have fallen. The pacing of the film, Son of Saul is intense. The film never subsides from the tone of inevitability set in the early stages of the movie. Such as when Saul tries to find a rabbi to give the body of a young boy a proper Jewish