Jewish morality complexities in holocaust literature

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8 pages

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Published date :

01/27/2009

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Business & market

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Human resources

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Summary :

Introduction.
Conveying the complicity of respective victims.
1. Manifesting the way in which they begin to dehumanize their fellow victims.
2. Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.
3. The dead infants.
Dehumanization: The book Blood from the Sky.
1. The incredibly odd casualness of Boris.
2. Boris's prayer for the young girl.
3. Borowksi's casual language: His own perspective of the way the dead infants felt in his hands.
Casual language.
1. An evocative and subtle mode of portraying the complicity of victims.
2. Boris's inability to act on the crime.
Characters Blood from the Sky whose actual job it is to be complicit.
Jan Kott's statement in the introduction from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Leo L's complicity.
Rawicz employment of the second person technique in Blood from the Sky.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

jewish or non-jewish, being a victim of the holocaust did not always imply a sense of innocence. In other words, simply being a victim, did not free one from complicity. During this time, people were forced to make decisions that people should never have to make. Complicity during the holocaust, is a problematic issue to address. It is important to remember that a modern perspective can never judge the actions of those who made what one might view as abhorrent decisions, in order to ensure their or their own family's survival. For all, survival was the ultimate goal and people did absolutely anything to stay alive. The decisions faced by many, stretched the limits of what these people thought they were capable of, or of what human being were capable of. This difficult question of complicity of victims blurs the line between victim and perpetrator. Do victims transcend from victims to perpetrators once they become complicit?