On January 21st, 2015, at exactly 6:51 A.M. (and 16 seconds), some grandparent of a child in Colorado poured themselves a cup of coffee, grabbed some cream, put it in the coffee, and took a sip from the same cup of coffee. “Why in the hell was it coffee, though? Why not tea?” some may ask, to which an adequate response would be, “Well, why in the hell did some Jews revolt against the Nazis in the Holocaust? Because they chose to, there you go.” But, really, that’s a pretty sensitive subject, the Holocaust, so few people would’ve actually said that; however, that point is not rendered moot just because of sensitive subjects that shouldn’t be referenced so lightly. During the Holocaust, the mass genocide of mostly Jewish people and the disabled, approximately a million and a half perished at the hands of the infamous Nazis, a political party of apathetic and sadistic individuals, in grueling, atrocious ways. The Nazis repurposed the words, “concentration,” and, “camp,” to mean, “the-place-where-people-were-either-forced-to-labor-in-horrendous-conditions-or-just-killed.” It’s not hard to lose yourself in those circumstances as a child could lose their toys by laying them down somewhere and …show more content…
Luckily for him, if he can reserve his inner freedom, than he can reserve his self, as one can never completely strip anyone of their previous memories if that freedom is reserved. Frankl states just that in his text, Man’s Search for Meaning: “We who lived… remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread…they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s… own way.” In other words, the few men that maintained their inner freedom were able to maintain their respective