1.
a) Dehumanization: Deprive of positive human qualities
b) Many prisoners strongly believed in their God but they slowly start loosing their faith because of the harsh conditions they went through during the Holocaust.
c) He started to loose faith in God and eventually not believes in their God anymore because of the deaths he witness millions of death occurring every day at the camp. He questioned his faith because he could not understand how his God would let them suffer through this tragedy.
2.
a) "Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?"
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