Poland day 2: Auschwitz

The Question of Humanity: By Hannah Senesh.
"In the Fires of war, in the flame,in the flare.
In the eye-blinding, searing glare
My little lantern I carry high.
To search, to search for true man.
In the glare, the light of my lantern burns dim.
In the fire glow my eyes cannot see:
When he stands there, facing me?
Set a sign, O lord, set a sign on his brow
that in my heat, fire and burning I may
know the pure, the eternal spark
Of what I seek: true man."
After a day of being at the place where the lowest actions of humanity were committed, we read this poem by Hannah Senesh during our night Peula. It brought out the question of what is humanity? In the most heated fires possible, how can we understand what it means to be human? these are the questions we discussed. Whatever the answer may be, we came to a conclusion that no matter what, these are the fires which are our responsibility to put out, especially as being members of H.D.
The Abyss that Lies Between Human and Beast: Professor Emanuel Bergnam:
When we ask ourselves which philosophy paved the way to Nazism, we will have to admit the following: That it was the same philosophy of the 19th century-which under deceptive and misleading methods of the natural sciences prevalent at that time-taught to see human beings as a zoological species, and tried to cancel the abyss that lies between human and beast.
This philosophy attempts to hide the truth: That man becomes man by disconnecting himself from nature's biological orders, by means of his freedom of morality, and by this he ceases to be a beast.
This way of thinking-that saw the human as a beast among beats-allowed to development of insane ideas of raising a superior race, and exterminating the so called lower races. If the human race wants to save itself from these winds of insanity, it must respect humans as humans, as an individual gifted with freedom of morality which gives them the power for immense ways of action.