Resistance in the camps

Van Pelt studied the onslaught that the inmates suffered in the various camps and which they sought to resist. He seeks to understand the reality of the camps by comparing and contrasting different types: paradise, hades, purgatory, hell and gehenna. The death camps constituted hell where finally one's individuality was at stake. The tattoo in Auschwitz replaced one's name and all attempts to avoid a bestial existence constituted resistance