Racism During The Holocaust By Elie Wiesel

Diction refers to Wiesel’s distinctive style of expression. He uses the words “murder” and “consumed” to describe how he feels. This accurately portrays how the camp had changed him. He no longer looked to God for answers. He felt alone from his first day in captivity. There was no freedom or happiness in his life anymore. Death became imminent and insignificant. He was surrounded by men and watched each one become nothing more than bone and flesh. But liberation came only with strength and endurance. Even those who were physically prepared didn’t necessarily make it. He repeats throughout the entire memoir the phrase “never shall I forget…” to emphasize the horror of the Holocaust.

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.

German officers aren’t explaining what is really happening so the Jews feel lost. To the Wiesel family, that means breaking them up. This is an external conflict because the Nazis are causing pain towards them by separating families. This situation makes Wiesel contemptuous of Hitler before he even settles in the camp. “An SS came toward us wielding a club. He commanded: ‘Men to the left! Women to the right!’ Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion,” (29). This quote illustrates that the Germans don’t explain what they are doing to the Jews. The soldiers segregate the Jews and never tell them what they are going to do to them. This is a conflict for no just Wiesel, but for all Jews brought to the camps. They struggle with having to deal with the soldiers dividing all of them. One day, the Germans hear that the liberating army would be passing by. The Nazis take control and move all prisoners out of the camp and on a “death march”. The prisoners are walking hundreds of miles until they receive a break. The Nazis give them a break and prisoners rest, but some people don’t think it is worth trying to survive. “He was not moving. Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight,” (98 - 99). This quote shows that Elie needs his father

The holocaust is one of the world's most tragic events, approximately 6 million Jews died and the concentration camp Auschwitz is the world's largest human cemetery, yet it has no graves. In Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir Night, he writes about his dehumanizing journey in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Firstly, Elie experiences the loss of love and belonging when he is separated from his mother, sisters, and eventually his father. Also, the lack of respect that the Nazis showed the prisoners which lead to the men, including Elie to feel a sense of worthlessness in the camp. Finally, the lack of basic necessities in the camp leads to the men physically experiencing dehumanization. As a result, all these factors contribute to the

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.

At the beginning of the memoir, Elie describes the extent of psychological abuse that he is subjected to, and already the reader can sense a theme of darkness. The atrocious cruelty showed by Nazi soldiers toward Jews, is beyond all realms of rationality. Through strategic verbal abuse, Nazi soldiers slowly deprive the Jews of their stimulus and ability to react. The author reveals, “Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog…The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (Wiesel 36). This daily psychological pressure is intended to extinguish any trace of humanity in Jews. The Nazi soldiers know that if they deprive the Jews of their innate nature and interests in life, it would be easier to instill fear and exponentially erase hope. The author affirms, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would had dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?” (39). In this section of the memoir, Elie underscores the Nazis’ success in creating a mental paralysis and an incapacity to react to injustice. The Nazis are using one of the most invasive forms of torture, the psychological abuse. They are progressing every day in their brutal plan, and consequently, the Jews’ anguish becomes more intense and precise. Caleb Lewis in

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

In this scene from Night, Elie Wiesel and his inmates are rushed out of their barracks at 5 A.M, forced to strip, and ordered run, naked and cold. Elie unveils that enslavement strips one of their personal identity leading to dehumanization. Wiesel observes “Mountains of prison garb” in the concentration camp. The use of hyperbole, exaggerating the amount of prison garb, emphasizes the high density of individuals in the camp. They are forced to wear the same uniform clothing, illustrating the destruction of individuality. The use of the word “prison” shows the birth of subjection. Wiesel also uses syntax to demonstrate the conformity of the camp, recalling the daily routine “Disinfection. Everybody soaked in it. Then came a hot shower. All

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.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis employ various acts of dehumanization towards the prisoners of Auschwitz and too many other lives in other camps around Nazi Europe. The Nazis take away the prisoner’s identities, starve them, and treat them like animals so much so that it causes them to begin to act like animals themselves. All of these atrocities align with Nazi Germany’s goal of killing the Jewish people and other groups as well. The repeated instances of dehumanization makes the prisoners much easier to control because all of these things combined take away their hope and without hope they have no chance of escape.

When people do not stand up to brutality, it creates a continuous cycle of maltreatment. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel is a Jewish teenager who is forced out of his home in Transylvania by the Nazi army and then sent to concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with his father. There, he lives the most traumatic experiences of his life without a single word of protest. In the future, he realizes that staying silent allows these injustices to happen repeatedly. By publishing his memoir, Wiesel is breaking that silence and speaking out about his true feelings towards Hitler and the Nazis. An example of when Wiesel keeps silent is before his father passes away. The old, sickly man is beat by an officer and Wiesel does not interfere because

Elie Wiesel in his memoir titled, Night informs the readers that the Jews were forced to leave their homes, beaten and killed by the S.S, treated like animals, starved to death and gassed in chambers and supports his claim through giving examples of his own personal experiences as a victim in Auschwitz. Wiesel’s purpose is to convince the reader to see that the Nazis were monsters who did horrible things that scared people in order to make sure that what happened is unforgettable no matter how hard others try to forget it so his horrendous past doesn't become others future. The intended audience is the entire world and the author uses his own authority and experience in the camp as giving information of his past and hardships that he endured through the concentration camps to support his claims.The author writes in a dark, somber tone and asserts a justifiable bias against the Nazi S.S and Hungarian police for the horrible acts they performed such as the beatings, taking the Jews from their homes, sending the Jews to the crematorium, and so many more unimaginable horrific things.

Throughout Wiesel’s novel, many different types of conflict are mentioned. Whether through Elie’s thoughts or the external difficulties of life in concentration camps, the discussion of such topics elicits an emotional response from many readers. Wiesel is able to discuss his struggle within himself, with others, with his faith, and with the environment around him to create poignant descriptions of the horrors of the Holocaust.

The autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel explores several ambiguous and dark themes throughout his recount of living through the Holocaust. One of the most complex is the idea that different elements of fear will force groups of people into survival mode, causing them to commit horrendous acts. When anyone is exposed to savagery to the point of survival, they too lose all humanity. Wiesel displays this in both the Germans and Jews, for neither maintain their sense of morality after remaining in the concentration camps. There are several instances in the book where the narrator, Elie Wiesel, observes both sides of the conflict display incredibly inhuman thoughts or actions, and some he experiences for himself.

He provides us with a comparison between the starving Jews and ferocious beasts. With this Wiesel demonstrates the level of desperation the Jews were, they were like beasts hunting for prey. The Germans had starved these people to the point where their humanity and morals did not matter, the only thing on their minds was food. The thought of food made them act like ferocious