Celebrating Bar Mitzvah, 70 years late

A rite usually celebrated by 13 year old boys in the Jewish culture was recently celebrated by 83 year old Sol Laufer.

In 1941, Nazis brought him and his family into a ghetto called Krenau. Instead of celebrating a regular Jewish rite important to his culture, Laufer experienced life in a concentration camp until the Soviet's liberated his camp in 1945. Eventually, Laufer came to America where he is a successful engineer and where he can celebrate his religion, finally.

Eventually, Laufer got to experience his bar mitzvah, even if it took him seventy years. And, in America he regained the religious freedom he lost when he was a child.

Essentially, the Nazi regime took away Laufer's right to practice his religion. What rights did the citizens of Germany and surrounding nations have before the Nazis took them away? And does a political party have the right to interfere with the religion of their citizens? Likewise, some countries have/had universal religions, unlike America. Is enforcing a strict dogma a restriction of rights?

Relating this back to The Reader, it can be argued that Hanna's rights - maybe not religious rights, but rights nonetheless - were also inhibited by the Holocaust. Because she is illiterate, and because she obviously needed a job to support herself, working as a guard may have been the best option for her. And working as a guard, having no other viable options, can be a restriction of her rights to choose what/who she wants to be, even as an uneducated German woman.