Morgen Früh: Tomorrow Morning

From the moment that prisoners entered Auschwitz the campaign began of transforming men into beasts, the Germans immediately begin to use time as a means to take away the Jews humanity. The prisoners were herded into a large room to wait with the only means to track time is dripping polluted water unsuitable to even quench their thirst. Levi remarks, “This is hell. ...a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for s

The Jews of the death camps were isolated from the rest of the world. When a person is cut off from contact with other humans, he eventually becomes cut off from himself. Even though the Jewish prisoners were in contact with each other communication was often very difficult because all the nationalities were mixed together and there was no common language. Prisoners often died or were killed before establishing a means of communicating. The Germans figured that if the Jews had no contact with the outside world that they would be forgotten; “if they could communicate with us, it would create a breach in the wall which keeps us dead to the world, and a ray of light into the mystery which prevails among free men about our condition.”(82)

The prisoners had everything taken from them after getting to the camp. They were forced to strip, given showers, had their heads shaven, and given uniforms. They even had their names taken away; every Jew was given a number and had it tattooed on their left arm. A man posses nothing, is reduced to nothing, he has had his identity taken away and is no longer a man. He loses his dignity, restraint, himself. The prisoners were beat down through mental and physical abuse, working from sunup to sundown at strenuous tasks on almost no food. To remain human the prisoners needed to maintain their identity, “to find ourselves the strength to do so, to manage somehow so that behind the name something of us, of us as we were, still remains.”(27) It was a constant fight to

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