Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

The nazis treated them as if they were nothing, and didn’t think twice about it. The Nazis didn’t even think of the Jews as human being; they treated them as trash, burned them alive, and treated them with no respect. As Elie and his dad first walked into the camp, they saw a sight they would never forget. “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew

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 can see the theme of dehumanization through the way the Nazi’s treated the Jews, spoke to the Jews, and how the Jews treated one another.

Starting from the beginning, they were beat to the bone. Their humanity was stripped, they we like slaves and they lived of nothing. In order to survive, unspeakable acts were committed, and nice people turned into monsters. The holocaust tells the ultimate story about being pushed to the limits, literally until you die. Unfortunately though, Elie did not escape this horrible fate. We see throughout the book how he turns selfish and also how his relationship with his father weakens. It was not his fault though, no one was safe from the illness that plagued the camps. Looking back today we can see how terrible times were and we know the nazis were good at doing one thing. Using terrible treatment to turn innocent Jewish people, in savage

In the novel the Nazis cruelty is shown through how they treat the prisoners. When the Kapos are choosing men for there bunks, they say “You...you...you and you….” with a “pointed a finger”, and Elie describes there expressions “as though choosing cattle or merchandise” (Wiesel 57). This shows that the Nazis do not

Besides, the killings were of all races, not just the Jews, despite the fact that the Jews were the majority. In addition to this atrocity, the Nazi regime brought a radical and daunting change to the German Jewish Community they were thrown into concentration camps and dehumanized. The focal point of dehumanization was the concentration camp, but the first act of dehumanization was the fact that they were transported to the camp in cattle cars. These cattle cars were overloaded with 80 people in a car and were given little to eat for the journey, this scene was described by Elie himself when he said “The Hungarian police made us get in-- eighty people in each car. We have left a few loaves of bread and some buckets of water. The bars at the window were checked, to see that they were not loose. Then the cars were sealed”. On the contrary, this was only the beginning of their journey and they were transported as if they were animals, but little did they know that it was about to get a whole lot worse. Henceforth, another act of gruesome dehumanization was when Elie realized the SS guards were homosexual and were trafficked young Jewish children for pleasure this was revealed when Elie stated “He was so fat he could hardly move. Like the leader of the camp, he “loved” children. As soon as we arrived, he had brought them bread, soup, and margarine. Actually, this

Actions like killing someone over a crumb of bread is the last thing that people will resort to. During the holocaust prisoners in concentration camps were treated so poorly that they turned to these actions. A Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir about his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s book Night shows the awful conditions that he and other prisoners had to go through which caused them to change. The dehumanization of prisoners in the Holocaust caused them to be desensitized to death and mistreat other prisoners.

Elie probably was very much affected by all of his family being sent to this camp. Most, if not all of his family was killed. They were shot, gassed or killed using other methods. Knowing that almost everyone you knew since birth was thrown in a torture camp, then tortured until death must feel terrible.

Prisoners were beaten badly by SS officers and other prisoners for not listening to instructions. An SS guard wanted Elie’s gold crown but didn’t give it up. The guard beat his father for two weeks. Eventually Elie

"To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice" (Elie Wiesel). My hook is significant to the holocaust because many people don’t know about it and it to know what happened may prevent it from happening again. The holocaust occurred during WW2. Over 6 million Jews died because of their race and religion. In Ellie's novel he shows dehumanization in changing Elie's identity.

What is dehumanization? Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. How does this happen? Ever been  called selfish?

Hot box cars, moans of anguish and loud cries for help. Like an animal in captivity waiting to be free of this never ending prison. Dehumanization to its finest, Jewish people had to endure this every day. Not only that but being classified,symbolized,organized, polarized, prepared, exterminated and lastly denied. In this autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel he explains the day to day torment he had go through and some of his experiences at one of the worst Concentration camp, Auschwitz.

Night is the memoir of what Elie Wiesel experienced in the Holocaust. A concept the recurs is his story is dehumanization, more specifically, the Nazi’s attempt to take away the humanity of Jews. They did this by taking their valuables, marking them, imposing regulations, containing them, torturing and starving them, and treating them like animals. At the beginning of the memoir, Wiesel’s life revolves around his religion. These method took away his faith, leaving what he later described as a void. At the end of the book, he looks at himself in a mirror and does not recognize himself. He describes himself as corpse-like. This is one of the things that helped Hitler achieve his ends. By making them look inhuman, as they walked from camp to

Throughout the novel, one common theme is dehumanization of the inmates. With Elie’s town, the first act of dehumanization that they were introduced to was the ghettos they were forced into. The entire town was forced into two small areas of land, one four streets big and the other occupying only a few alleyways on the edge of town (Wiesel 11). This shows that the German soldiers didn’t care at all about the needs of human beings, and I think Elie felt at this point that the Jews were treated like a problem to be stuffed away. Multiple times during Elie’s experience, he and the other Jews were referred to as animals. While on the first train ride, a German officer says “’If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs’”

Dehumanization and brutality first appears when they first leave for the camp on the train. Once they get on the train, they were told that if one person were to go missing, “they will be shot” (24). Not only would they just be shot, but they would be “shot, like dogs’ (24). The SS officers were putting them against each other, choosing their own life was worth more than the lives of the other Jews. Furthermore, they were dehumanized by being separated by gender. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29), these words rang in Elie’s ears. For Elie, “that was the moment when [he] left [his] mother” (29). Separating them was separating families as well. The “eight simple, short words” (29), Elie heard struck his whole

Throughout the entire book, victims were subjected to torture and degrading treatment, frequently without a fair trial, and are sentenced to death. For instance, after Elie encountered Idek, the Kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna, having an affair with a girl, Elie was punished with twenty-five severe whips without trial, as demonstrated in page 67 “The Kapo made a short speech. ‘An ordinary inmate does not have the right to mix into other people’s affairs. One of you does not seem to have understood this point. I shall therefore try to make him understand clearly.’” In addition, several other inmates were sentenced to death without a fair public hearing. This was emphasized throughout the novel, particularly on page 72 in which the German soldier in process of prosecution of a prisoner, stated “In the name of Reichsfuhrer Himmler…prisoner number…stole during the air raid…according to the law…prisoner number…is condemned to death. Let this be a warning and an example to all