Summary:
Essay attempts to answer the following questions: What does it mean for an individual to become institutionalized within the culture of the concentration camp? Moreover, what happens to personal human dignity in the process? What part of the individual survives, and what part is lost forever? And, finally, how does an individual find the help he needs to reclaim his dignity.
When being forced into a camp, away from ones home and possessions, what does one have left? At a point you come to reality that you have been split up from your friends and family and you may never see them again. Through the grapevine you hear that your whole family is dead. "His father, mother, brother and his wife died in these camps or were sent to gas ovens, so that, excepting for his sister, his entire family punished in these camps."( Frankl,9). All you have left is yourself. "We really had nothing now except our bare bodies--even minus hair; all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence"(Frankl, 33). That is your dignity. This is enough to make a person feel very invisible and have a huge hole in their life.
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