Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

Mass murdering, massacres, and human suffering are all something that we are familiar with; whether this familiarity is from a personal experience or something we learned from a book or movie. This concept is all living within us in the back of our heads, setting up camp for the long haul. The short story from Night by Elie Wiesel is about a family that gets taken to a concentration camp in the midst of a genocide. The family faces intolerance just because of their Jewish heritage and religion. This intolerance and genocide is relevant in today's world. No, nobody is trying to take over the world and kill half the human population while doing it. This intolerance and possible genocide is occurring because we are doing it to ourselves. The short story from Night by Elie Wiesel connects to the world issue of abrupt climate change through the noun “genocide”; like the Jews being mass murdered by the Nazis, the whole human species will be obliterated by mother nature if we don’t take crucial environmental steps and focus on science and technology.

Another way the Germans dehumanized the Jews was by taking away all of their belongings. Some of these items they could live without, but they definitely did not realize how much they took them for granted. Lastly, the Jews were given numbers instead of their names. As the novel claimed, “The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). This act of taking away the Jews names and replacing them with numbers is an inhumane act which is dehumanizing towards them. People do not realize that something as simple as a name can have so much meaning until it is taken away. Therefore, the Germans stripped the Jews of everything that resembled a past life, which was dehumanizing.

Greater than any war, plague, or catastrophe and it’s potential damage to human life is beyond calculation, the feeling of dehumanization is a feeling beyond description. Elie Wiesel a Jew Holocaust survivor from Sighet, Transylvania writes a memoir Night. In his memoir he writes about his own experiences in 1944 during the holocaust. Throughout this story Elie goes through lots of challenges that ultimately challenge his faith as a human. In resemblance, Jakob Blankitny a Jew from Maków Mazowiecki, Poland writes his take on his experiences in 1944 throughout the holocaust and how he and his family are treated by the Nazis and degraded as humans. In dire circumstances, these texts argue that dissolving one into a primitive with savage, animal characteristics are necessary for survival under inhumane conditions.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

One of Adolf Hitler’s promises was to eliminate the Jewish race. In order for this to happen, you must first see people as less than human. Once you have accomplished this task, the mass murder of millions of people becomes easy. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recalls the multitude of times he was seen as less than human, and how this affected his life while in concentration camps. The dehumanization of the prisoners not only crushes them, it causes them to become desensitized and often see each other as less than human.

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

Six million jews. Six million innocent men, women and children. Emerging from the ashes and corpses, one man had the intention of preserving this tragedy, yet at the same time preventing it. Elie Wiesel’s fulfilled his purpose of showing the heinous crimes of the Holocaust through the change of characterization of Elie before, during and after the events of Wiesel 's 1940 memoir-Night. The Holocaust is remembered as a stain on history, where a massive genocide occurred. but we must also recognize the souls and personalities that were killed and burned. Wiesel trembling hands picked up these ashes, personifying their ebony remains into a young child-Elie.

Dehumanized. Tortured. Starved. Those three words are referred to how the concentration camps were like. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel tells the story of his memory of the concentration camps and how it all turned into a big nightmare. Sighet is a little town in Transylvania where Elie spent his childhood. As a young boy Elie was very religious. Shlomo, Elies father was as well very religious. Religion meant a lot to him, however through out the Holocaust Shlomo and Elie soon realize what really is important.

Auschwitz is one of the many concentration camps in the nazi territory, this leads to the book “Night” which is written by Elie Wiesel. In the book, Elie was actually in a concentration camp and experienced all the hangings, beatings, and burnings of the jewish people. Thankfully, Elie was able to escape and lived to tell his past experiences in the camps,I also think that Wiesel did a good job at illustrating, which leads into the themes survival and dehumanization, Elizar did a good job at illustrating these two themes in the book he experienced the both of them.

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

World War II, a war lasting from 1939 to 1945, was the deadliest war known to humankind. Among the events of the Second World War was the Holocaust; a state-sponsored persecution of over six million Jews. A Holocaust survivor and author, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir called Night about his experiences in the concentration camps. To prevent such catastrophic events such as the Holocaust happen again, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to bring peace to all nations and guarantee unalienable rights to all. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, he illustrates several examples of dehumanization towards jews, such as torture, property deprivation, and servitude, which resulted in the creation of the UDHR.

Throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, 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, like Eliezer,( the character of the book is based on), who not only loses faith in God but also in mankind while in the concentration camps. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed…..Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget these things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (Wiesel Chapter 3, pg. 34) This loss of humanity led to a weakened will in the Holocaust victims, and essentially led to death in many. "Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?" (Wiesel Chapter 3, pg. 40)

In conclusion, dehumanization was a huge and terrible part of the holocaust because the nazi would treat all Jews like nothing they would feel like less than what they really are. Dehumanization is a process where nazi would treat the Jews like they are nothing to them. They would force them into camps and they would hang them then they would tattoo them a number and that’s how they went by all of these were examples of

The human brutality in the memoir Night shows examples of how the people in Germany were brainwashed into thinking what they did was right. The nazis would beat these people until they had no emotions left and nothing to think for themselves. Wiesel writes that on a regular day the people were watching hangings in the gallows. They were being starved ad they were living in conditions that men typically would not be living in. The living conditions they were in were not of human beings but animals. In the memoir Night Elie Wiesel writes of the human brutality that caused him to lose faith in the world.

They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. “Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (Wiesel 16).