In the memoir Night, the Jews were dehumanized by the Nazis until they had so very little left, whether it was their dignity, friends and family, or will to live. The moment the Jews entered the concentration camps, they were subject to dehumanization. The Nazis abused them and threw their babies into furnaces. Families were separated, and everyone was beaten. They were given a single tiny rations of food that could hardly count as a serving. And on top of that, they were forced to do unbelievable tasks while they were starving and severely beaten. Dehumanization is very clearly shown in the story of Night, through the tortuous and unrelenting abuse that the Jews experienced from the hands of the Nazis. Near the beginning of the book, when …show more content…
Throughout the whole story, Elie gives a look into the abuse that he and others would suffer. They would be randomly woken up and beaten and forced to run around in the cold. Or the guards would be unhappy with something that one of the Jews did, and would attack them. It was a constant feeling of fear caused by the possibility of being assaulted. The Nazis forced a mindset of fear onto the Jews. They made the Jews think that there was nothing they could do, and that they had complete control over them. Something similar occurred in Animal Farm, as Napoleon and the other pigs manipulated the other animals to believe that Snowball was evil and tried to sabotage them, and convinced the animals to accept and respect them as their leaders. The pigs, through propaganda and other forms of subtle manipulation, were able to make the rest of the animals submit to their commands. In Night, a similar situation occurred, except the Nazis demanded the attention and respect from the Jews through force and fear. “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows. What's more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn't he have avoided Idek's wrath? That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me…” (Wiesel 54). This quote from the book summarizes the fear …show more content…
Even though they were allowed to wear as many clothes as they wanted, as it was extremely frigid, the Jews were forced to run. If someone stopped for a second, they would be shot. They ran for a very long time in the cold weather, without water or food, and completely out of breath. Then the Jews arrived at a small village. They went inside the buildings to rest, where many of them laid on the ground until they died from the temperature, hunger, thirst, exhaustion, or something similar. Elie and his father attempted to keep each other awake to avoid the grip of death. As night fell, the SS ordered the Jews to get back into their ranks. They marched in the freezing cold while snow fell from the sky. After a while of marching and running, they arrived at Gleiwitz. The Jews were crammed into the barracks, with very little room for air. Everyone was squished and smothering each other. People died under the weight of a pile of other Jews. They stayed like that for three days without food or water, and were forbidden to leave the barracks. After they were let out and given a small ration of bread, they were shoved into roofless train cars. They stop after a while of traveling to throw out the dead, and Elie almost loses his father, who was almost dead. They continued moving, having snow as their only food. After days of traveling, the Nazis threw bread into the cart, and the emaciated Jews clawed
Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer, the protagonist, is transported and moved to numerous concentration camps. His story, which is corresponding to Wiesel’s biography, is representative to the lives of a billion other Jews. Jews were stripped away from their families, beliefs, identity, and freedom. They could no longer express their faith in God or have the human right to live where desired. During the holocaust, nothing was fair, everything was dark and cruel.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in a concentration camp,or what it is like to be a Jew while Hitler is starting to take control over you and your family? Hitler's number one thing that he wanted to do was kill all Jews. In the book Night, Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to nothing more than things because they hated all Jews. In Night, the author Elie Wiesel tells about his experiences in a concentration camp. Many of the experiences Elie shared with the readers of this book explains how the Nazis dehumanized his father, his fellow Jews and himself.
They got separated from their other family member. They both pass the selection which is either death or work. Jewish arrival are stripped and any other possibility of cruelty. They march from Birkenau to main camp of Auschwitz. Then to Buna a work camp.
Dehumanization The Nazis dehumanized the innocent people. In the novel it showed what life was like during the holocaust. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesal, tells you the way that the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish race. They dehumanized the Jewish race by doing what they would do to animals. They burned them.
In conclusion memoir Night the jews were not treated like humans they were dehumanized they were burned alive and forced to run and they got shot and tortured. The author of Night was a Holocaust survivor who didn't want to write it for 10 years because he didn’t want to think of that tragic night again but he did it because he wants people to know what hitler did to the
The book shows his mental change in how he had first desired to care about every person he met and tried to help everyone he could. Elie questioned his faith with his God and started to even wonder if there was one watching over him and his people, he struggled with this even before the camps. During his time at the camps, Elie went through experiencing many public hangings, but one primary struck him emotionally and damaged him mentally. This was a public hanging of children. The children were described to be
The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish man who lived through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, tells this man’s sad story and what he went through as a young child. At many moments in the story it is possible to see how the living conditions of the Jewish community deteriorated as the war went on. One of the main aspects of the Nazi’s plan to rid the planet of the Jews was to break them mentally, mainly by slowly taking their humanity from them. Treating them like animals was one of the ways that the Nazis would dehumanize the Jewish victims. As if they were cattle, they were referred to as numbers instead of names as if they were not even human anymore.
In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesal, Wiesal himself is explaining his story, and personal experiences from the Holocaust of 1933-1945. This event is one of the most unbelievable times in history. Elie tells his story, in hopes that it will prevent history from repeating itself. The Jews went through not just internal hell, but had to live it everyday. They were treated like objects, animals, and nonentities.
The tests that they had to go through was not easy for some of them. Many jewish people didn’t make it into the concentration camps because of their health and their age. The jewish people and many other races had to go through terrifying acts like beatings, gas chambers, starvation, etc. In the text of the book Night Elie gets his number called.
Whenever people in the concentration camp did something not inline with what the SS officers or Nazis wanted, they were beaten brutally. As said by Wiesel, “My father had been struck in front of me, and I had not just even blinked, I had watched and kept silent” (Wiesel 36). Elie’s father was beaten directly in front of him, and he was unable to do anything about it. The fact that Elie did not take action when he saw this shows just how effective the dehumanization was on him and his fellow
Jonah Wright English II Mrs. M. Scott February 21, 2023 Dehumanization of the Jews in Night Dehumanization is the denial of full humaneness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it. Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, these accounts of dehumanization, starvation, and deprivation are shown. In the year 1944, The SS Officers transported the people of Sighet to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. There at Auschwitz was a form of punishment for the Jews, they experienced physical and mental torture identity loss and denial of food and water. These cruel treatments led to the dehumanization of the Jews which is exactly what Hitler planned.
Hitler forced the Jews to move into a certain part of the city called “Gettos”. In the Gettos there was hardly any water, food and medical care. The jews weren’t taken care of they lived in small rooms with multiple other families. Eventually all Jews were brought to concentration camps. They were told they were going to a better place.
He had already been ripped away from his mother and sisters, which only drove him to protect his father to the best of his abilities. Seeing his father losing hope over time was devastating for Elie to watch. The concentration camps tore up his family completely. His misery only grew after that. “A silent death, suffocation.
Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. The feeling of dehumanization was very common between the jews. They were constantly being treated as in they were animals. The author and narrator Elie Wiesel, personally experienced being treated like an animal
Dehumanization Causing Events in Night Over the course of Eliezer’s holocaust experience in the novel Night, the Jews are gradually reduced to little more that “things” which were a nuisance to Nazis. This process was called dehumanization. Three examples of events that occurred which contributed to the dehumanization of Eliezer, his father, and his fellow Jews are: people were divided both mentally and physically, those who could not work or who showed weakness were killed, and public executions were held.