to live normally when every human being around them, including other Jews, are fighting against them? Due to dehumanization, the survivors of the Holocaust are as lifeless as the victims psychologically. It is nearly impossible that after experiencing a traumatic event such as Holocaust to feel normal again, to feel like a human again. Throughout history and in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it is evident that gentiles did not care about the Jewish nation. Moreover, not even the Jewish people stick
Dehumanization is understood as the process of humans being deprived of what makes them human, but the Nazis took it a step further to encourage mistreatment between the prisoners . The Holocaust is a ghastly event in the history of the world, that killed around 6 million Jewish people, but the horrors don’t stop there. The way the prisoners were treated in the concentration camps left lasting effects on the survivors. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he recounts the horrific actions of the Nazi party
combat force participation. The war started on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945. Over 60 million service personnel and civilians were killed. The nation that suffered the most loss was the USSR. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, was a story about the author, Elie Wiesel, experiencing the Nazi concentration camps with his father while WWII was happening. In the story, Elie’s family failed to escape the city of Sighet. This caused his family to be captured and separated by the Germans. He
Dehumanization of the Jews Dehumanization is the act of taking one’s human qualities away from them, this can be done using voice and also using actions. During the time of the Holocaust, the Nazi’s used their power to abuse and dehumanize the Jewish people. They would beat and kill them, they would yell at them and they stripped the Jews of their dignity and rights. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, one recurring theme is the dehumanization of the Jews. Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, one
the Jewish people as little more than a virus, invading their country and destroying their lives from the inside. Elie Wiesel recounts 5 years of abuse at the hands of the Nazi party that he endured in his critically acclaimed novel Night. Over the course of the book he describes, from a first person perspective, the calculated and gradual dehumanization of the Jewish people. Elie Wiesel is a young boy of only 13 when we first meet him, the year is 1941 and his hometown of Sighet is a bustling Jewish
camps was Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. In his memoir Night, the many acts of dehumanization and cruelty that Wiesel witnesses ultimately leads to his loss of faith in both his god and humanity. Early on in the memoir, Wiesel has a very strong faith for a young boy. He states, “I was twelve. I believed profoundly” (Wiesel 1). His faith is established early on in order to make a great contrast between his faith in the beginning versus the end of the memoir. Before he is deported, Wiesel wants to
Dehumanization is the torture that the Jews receive and the pity they do not. It is found everywhere in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, but also in the whole thinking process and execution of the Holocaust. The population of Jews is abruptly being reduced because of some unnecessary hatred towards them. Elie is surrounded by death, hunger, and suffering, and all he comes to know is pain. To demean a whole race and create another period of slavery leaves an aftertaste of abhorrence and loathing
In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel writes about the experiences of Eliezer, his family, and fellow Jews, he explained how the Nazis gradually changes the way the Jews lived little by little. Dehumanization is the process of stripping a person of every quality that makes him human and changing them to fit their needs. Dehumanizing started when Eliezer and other Jews in his community are evacuated from their homes in Sighet. They were transported in cattle cars which related the Jews to no more than
Elie Wiesel was a man that always had a way with using language to paint a picture. Whether he were writing to stay sane or to write so people remember what happened to him. He was apart of one of the most horrific events in history, the Holocaust. Throughout the book Elie witnessed traumatizing hangings and babies being scorched, as well as families being torn apart, all while he was still fifteen. Throughout the biography Night, Elie and other Jews were treated as if they were inhumane, Elie questions
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