Night Humanity By Elie Wiesel

In the story Night, Elie Wiesel recalls a moment in the past when he had seen his father get hit and he just “stood there petrified”(Wiesel 39). Inhumanity towards his father lead to change in character. Two themes lead by inhumanity are changes in character such as thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, the second theme is a loss of relationship towards family.

It is presumed that a person’s life is inevitably predetermined (which is known as fate). When a situation turns bad, a human will turn to the fight or flight response. The fight or flight response is a natural human response that occurs when a person feels distressed. In the book Night, a young boy named Elie struggles with surviving life in various concentration camps. In Elie’s case he wasn’t concerned with fight or flight..

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, silence allows the atrocities of the world to prevail; additionally, the absence of God through times of suffering, lack of resistance from the Jewish victims and Elie’s reluctance to aid his father are actions that demonstrate the lasting impact of silence upon others. Initially, thirteen year old Elie has a strong passion for religion and studies many Jewish texts; however, when he is deported to Birkenau, he witnesses that God takes no action when the babies are being “thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). Consequently, Elie starts to question his faith: “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (33).

The Nature of Man refers to the distinguished characteristics which humans tend to have naturally. They are traits that each and every human being, regardless of their race, religion, gender, and sexual preference, have since the beginning of Man. The true Nature of Man is one of selfishness and evilness.

After completing the book “Night” by Elie wiesel I believe that his main theme was ,The brutality of the Holocaust caused a loss of humanity in those it affected. This theme can be seen strongly near the end of the book as Wiesel describes the S.S officers behavior “They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure” showing that they truly did not care about the lives of those they were treating so horribly, showing their intense loss of their basic humanity. Another instance of the loss of humanity caused by the holocaust is when the German civilians throw bread onto wiesel's train car "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me … You're killing

During the Holocaust, Jewish people lived in fear. They've lost their sense of freedom throughout the Holocaust when they were in the concentration camps and anywhere where Nazis ruled. These people weren't safe because they were the main victims and had to live in terrible conditions and were mistreated. They were treated harshly and struggled to survive in a place ran by people who tried to exterminate them. It was horrific for these targeted people because they've lost all their rights and conditions

Throughout the early 1930s and mid-1940s, a devastating event known as the Holocaust took place in Europe. Six million Jews including men, women children were killed. Very few had survived however many died. The Nazis, who came into power in Germany, believed that the Jews were a threat to the German community so they wanted to get rid of them. It was a brutal and terrifying time for the Jews but it was also a difficult time for the Soviets who had been cheated on.

The Germans targeted at the non-Jewish Polish for killing, and deported millions of Soviet civilians were forced labor. When people died because of “labor” it wasn't just about labor it was about unsanitary conditions and leaving them malnourished. Germans didn't want Jews to have any land or property. This is so that Germans can come across as the superior race. They profiled the Jews making them wear armbands so that they could be identified without even looking at their whole facial profile. Two out of every three European Jews were killed as a part of the final solution, this is just an example of how they try to make a bad situation covered up by a point that would appeal to his followers. They also rationalize decisions when it came to marriage. On November 14, 1935 the 1st of the Newman Nuremberg Laws extended to prohibition of marriage or relations between people who could produce “racially suspect” offspring (Holocaust NewsPaper “Hitler Announces Nuremberg Race Laws”). Germans who are not practice Judaism for years on themselves caught in the grip of Nazis, they were forced to deny their faith to save their life. Under Hitler's rule lives, not just Jews but other nationalities were affected. Events that caused a lot of horror and suffering among many were cover up on behalf of German becoming a “Superior

There was a time when Jewish people's lives were in great danger. It was incredibly hard if you were Jewish at that time since many people died. Eleven million people died during the Holocaust. The Jewish population at this time was 9.5 million and six million of them died. Can you imagine what it was like to live through that? The treatment of Jews throughout Europe up through the 1940s was terrible and horrific. The jews were treated dreadfully before, during and after the Holocaust.

Those in the concentration camps faced brutal treatment from Nazi officials stationed there, abused for even asking questions or speaking out (“Night” reading), and were fed little to no food (Textbook pg. 504). Others were gassed, with so many dead bodies having accumulated after a certain point that the Nazis began incinerating the bodies to create space. By the end of this Holocaust, the population of Jews in Europe had diminished by millions, especially in Poland, where only 15 percent of the population remained (Holocaust Lecture, 3/9). Overall, the horrifying drop in the Jewish population that was caused by the genocide carried out by Adolf Hitler was allowed to unfold thanks to the growing popularity of the ideology that claimed Jews were inferior and that the “Aryan master race” needed to stay pure and in power. With this ideology used to justify the massacring of the “genetically unfit”, it was clearly the root of the atrocities that took place in Nazi Germany.

It is hard to picture that along with others that, 6 million Jews were targeted and killed during the Holocaust. It is astonishing to realize how racist and cruel the Nazis acted towards the Jews. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, once Hitler was in control of the German government “he translated his harsh feeling toward Jews into many policies and statutes which eroded the rights of German Jews from 1933-1939” (“Victims”). The anti-Jewish racist legislation passed The Nuremberg Laws in September, 1935. These laws made an extremely in depth Nazi definition of who was Jewish. A lot of people who did not think of themselves as Jewish were now being seen as targets of Nazi discrimination. Jewish is not seen as a race,

At the beginning of the 20th century, anti-Semitism became more serious. Germany began to isolate and eliminate Jews. When the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, comes to power in 1933, he wanted to set up the perfect Nazi state. The Nazis wanted to stamp out any opposition to their rule, so they set up a system of concentration camps, death camps for holding people that they see as “undesirable”. Those “undesirables” were Jews. From 1933 to 1945, about six million Jews are murdered and it is called the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the greatest single case of mass murder in history and is difficult to ignore. After World War II, survivors of the Holocaust told their stories directly or wrote down what happened in the Holocaust. One of the

Between the years 1939 and 1945, the Allies and the Axis Powers were fighting World War II. The Nazis were steadily rising into power and began the slow first acts of what would later be known as the Holocaust. “Holocaust” is a Geek term meaning execution, or sacrifice, of an entire group involving fire. The Jewish population of Europe went through years of horrific events and many lost their hope, family, and their inner selves. Their stories and legacies have lived on and will continue to leave a lasting impact on our world for many years to come. During the Holocaust, the Nazi Regime took the Jewish community through a very traumatic period of suffering, discrimination, and oppression.

The Holocaust, lasting from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, is arguably one of the biggest and worst genocides in history to date. Over 11 million people were murdered in total, six million being innocent Jewish people, and over 5,000 Jewish communities were destroyed as well, due to racism stemming from extreme nationalism and bigotry from the Nazis and their leader, Adolf Hitler. The Nazi party used strongly prejudicial propaganda against the Jews, and used fear to strengthen them as a party. The Jewish people were blamed for all of Germany’s problems following World War I and during the Holocaust, Jews were stripped of their basic human rights and the hatred and situations they faced were terrible and inhumane. The rise of Nazism made life horrifically difficult politically, socially, and economically for the Jewish people.

As one reads the story of the Holocaust through the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one see’s the difference of power between the Germans and the Jews. We see what the Nazis consider humane and inhumane. The Germans made bases in which they put the Jew through infernal pain and torture. The Germans were able to threaten the Jews with death or they could work until you couldn’t work anymore then they death. Everything that the Germans put in the camps were there for a reason, they purposely made the food sparse so that some may die of hunger or that some may rebel and try fight back.But in the end the plan was to get rid of the Jews completely,and luckily the Nazi didn’t fully succeed in exterminating the Jew. But in the end the Nazi killed one-third of the Jew population and one of their most effective methods to get rid of the Jews was was the crematorium.