On the other hand, it is amazing to consider that the human drive to survive is as strong as it is. There were Jewish people survived the Holocaust. It is truly amazing to me that they were able to survive such hardship and persecution. As an American, I have always enjoyed privilege and freedoms which are easy to take for granted. It is hard to imagine if I would have been able to endure what the Jewish people of the late 30's and early 40's went through. The very definition of 'Human Rights' is best portrayed in this movie because of the complete lack of them in Hitler's Third Reich. All aspects of Human Rights were taken away from European Jews at this time, and the film does a great job of documenting that. I am assuming that almost anyone would be able to note that the Jewish Holocaust is a glaring example of atrocious Human Rights violations, so in the following paragraphs I will point out some specific examples (though it will be hard to find a place to begin). One of the scenes that stuck out the most for me was when there was a new shipment of Jewish prisoners being sent to the concentration camp and so there was a 'selection' of who was fit to work and who wasn't. People were forced to strip and run around in circles so that Nazi 'doctors' (like Mengele) could decide who would continue to live and who would be executed. For some reason, when the prisoners were forced to strip and their vulnerable and emaciated forms were exposed, it gave a symbolic value to the dehumanization that was taking place. What little human dignity they had maintained until that point was literally 'stripped' when they were forced to strip. And another specific example of Human Rights abuses from the movie were the countless examples of executions which were carried out against the Jews for the littlest of 'offenses' and 'crimes'. The boy who was shot from a distance for not being able to 'get the stains out of the bathtub' is a perfect example of this.
