Morgen Früh: Tomorrow Morning

Primo Levi’s, Survival in Auschwitz, is autobiographical account of the ten months that Levi spent in a German death camp. Survival recounts the struggle of the Jews to maintain a flicker of humanity against the Germans unending attempt to reduce the Jews to mere animals. The prisoners suffered from all types of atrocities from lack of food to being beaten for the least offense. Everything the Germans did was dedicated toward one purpose, to take away the basic foundations of what makes a person human: awareness of time, the ability to communicate, the ability to think and a persons self-awareness. The Germans are taking away the Jews future; all that matters to the prisoners is how to survive the now, their slang for never is: 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 lar...