The Horrible And Gruesome Events Of The Holocaust

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about a man in the concentration camp, “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized”, and this only reveals how sadistic people were. Dehumanization is as plain-spoken as denying food and water to someone, denying social connection or limiting someone's ability to sleep. People who had suffered did not get any freedom and it was a life filled with torment and misery. Night is written by Elie Wiesel and it is a memoir. Through the process of dehumanization, including treating the Jews like animals, taking away their identity and being denied justice that Hitler and his accomplices were able to break the will of millions of Jewish people and largely succeed with their fiendish and diabolic

The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is about a protagonist’s personal experience during World War II as a Jew. Despite ominous signs, among many other Jews, Wiesel and his family failed to vacate, because they believed that the Fascists would not maltreat them. Consequently, the Jews were sent to concentration camps. Since the Jews were isolated and deprived of positive human qualities, the concentration camps connect to alienation and dehumanization. Moreover, it violates Human Rights. For example, the camps violated article 4 and article 5. Eliezer’s personal point of view displayed the mistreatment and physical and mental abuse Jews faced in throughout the duration of concentration camps.

Stealing everything they have, treating them like animals, and taking their lives. These are all examples of dehumanization that millions of Jews experienced during the Holocaust. The book, Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, provides an overview of Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust, and there were a multitude of ways that Elie and his inmates were dehumanized. It all started in 1944, when Elie and his family were deported from their home in Sighet and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. When they arrived, they had to leave their possessions on the train and went into the concentration camp where all of his family except his father were murdered. Elie and his father were dehumanized even more by looking just like

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.

Elie Wiesel’s, Night, however breaks that silence on the oppressed, allowing for truths to be brought to light, no matter how horrendous they may be. It was the dehumanization of internees that was the greatest barbarism of the Nazi’s during the holocaust, destroying bodies, minds, and souls to achieve their goal. By targeting the Jews’ humanity the Nazi’s were able to slowly break down a powerful society into single individuals, before using practices to dehumanize the remaining entities. Prominent practices that were carried out within Night include public beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separating families, crude murders, forced labor, runs, regulated clothing and food rations. Starting with the annihilation of the bodies of the Jews the Germans deemed unworthy, which were women, children, babies, the sick and the crippled. Germans continue the focus of total destruction onto those that survived the first selection through starvation and beatings. Next came the demolishing of the human mind through constant, consecutive mental abuse and inhumane treatment. However, breaking the human soul is the most problematical challenge the Germans have to accomplish to retain absolute control

Elie Wiesel once said that “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” The Nazi Party; however, impose themselves over people of Jewish race and faith through their use of dehumanization. Through the holocaust death camps, the SS belittle the Jewish people, and set them to the level of livestock animals. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel depicts of the unrivaled extent of dehumanization the holocaust prisoners are oppressed by, primarily displayed through the animalistic treatment of the prisoners throughout their time in the camp, the lack of humane nutrition provided to the prisoners, and the removal of the prisoners very identity by replacing their names with

The Holocaust resulted in the death of millions of innocent people, all of whom included Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and dissidents to the Nazi regime. Survivors of the Holocaust recorded countless memoirs and stories that revealed the brutality and torture experienced in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, wrote his memoir Night to recount his horrific experience in the camps. Images of starving children, death marches, and severe punishment inflicted on innocent prisoners explain the horrific Holocaust recounted by Wiesel. These are crimes against humanity, but they are instances of dehumanization, the reduction of a human being to a lesser being.

Hate begins to grow, and in the case of the Holocaust, this incessant hatred led to the identification of all Jews, the deportation of millions of people from their homes, the concentration in the camps, and extermination of entire families and communities at once. For nearly a decade, Jews, prisoners-of-war, homosexuals, and the disabled were rounded up, sent off to camps, and systematically slaughtered in unimaginably inhumane ways. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, shares his experiences at Auschwitz in the book Night, which reveals the true extent of inhumanity in both the Nazis and the Jews. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Wiesel uses imagery of his experiences before and while being in the concentration camp in order to develop his theme of dehumanization of both the Jews and the Nazis during the Holocaust.

In the book Night written by Elie Wiesel, dehumanization is a large part of the lives of Jews in concentration camps. Night is a memoir capturing the memories of Eliezer Wiesel’s of his eight months of living in a concentration camp when he is fifteen years old. There, Wiesel along with the rest of the prisoners, are tortured everyday, being dehumanized physically, mentally, and spiritually until they are unrecognizable. Physically, inmates in concentration camps are brutalized like animals.

The holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. Many lives were destroyed and multiple families were separated. Most believed in God until their end was near, but yet some quit believing when they took their first step upon the camps. Over 6 million Jews were slaughtered from the world over the years of 1933 to 1945. And yet their stories are still untold.

Since the terrorist attack on Paris, to the natural disasters in Haiti; there have been a variety of tragic events that have occurred throughout history across the world. Perhaps one main tragedy that leaves people feeling baffled is the Holocaust. Eric Lichtblau described the Holocaust in his article, The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking, as a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its associates killed approximately six million Jewish people because the Nazis believed that exterminating the Jewish people was justified. They believed this for the reason that Jewish people were not only a “low” and “evil” race, but were affecting the lives of the Germans negatively and blamed them for all the social and economic problems in Germany (Lichtblau). The puzzling part is what would make an authoritative figure, such as Adolf Hitler; do such an atrocious thing to a group of people? Social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority in 1963 analyzed what makes people obedient to an authority. Milgram’s experiment found that factors such as the authority figure, the use of deception and the agentic state of the person can further explain why people obeyed Hitler to the point that induced the Holocaust.

From the terrorist attack on Paris, to the natural disasters in Haiti; there have been a variety of tragic events that have occurred throughout history across the world. Perhaps one main tragedy that leaves people feeling baffled is the Holocaust. Eric Lichtblau described the Holocaust in his article, The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking, as a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its associates killed around six million Jewish people because the Nazis believed that exterminating the Jewish people was justified. They believed this for the reason that Jewish people were not only a “low” and “evil” race, but were affecting the lives of the Germans negatively and blamed them for all the social and economic problems in Germany (Lichtblau). The puzzling part is what would make an authoritative figure, such as Adolf Hitler; do such an atrocious thing to a group of people? Social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority in 1963 analyzed what makes people obey orders. Milgram’s experiment found that factors such as the authority figure, the use of deception and the agentic state of the person can further explain why people obeyed Hitler to the point that induced the Holocaust.

Imagine being a small child taken from your home to a camp with people being treated poorly and unfair. You see things like very skinny people that are being starved, people doing forced labor, and people maybe dieing right in front of your eyes. The Holocaust was an important part of history where Germans targeted people like Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and more. and murdered them. The Holocaust is a very important event that happened in World War ll and will forever be a tragic event in history.

A mass murder on an industrial scale: the horrors of the Holocaust were unlike anything the world had seen before. Seeing what a civilized society is capable of doing to other human beings reveals the capacity of evil which humans are capable of. Consequently, 11 million individuals lost their lives due to discrimination, intolerance, and others’ indifference to their suffering, therefore, learning and remembering their stories during the Holocaust is the first step in preventing future genocides from occurring. The systematic murder of Jews began in 1941 with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the use of Gas Chambers, yet discrimination began in 1933 with a national boycott of their businesses and exclusion from various professions. Knowing this allows citizens to recognize warning signs and stand up

The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel is based on his experiences in WWII era Nazi concentration camp. Wiesel shares his experiences throughout the book and demonstrates the theme of dehumanization through cruel acts that takes place in the concentration camp by the German authorities. Dehumanization is a process in which people are deprived of their human qualities. In the book Nazis targeted the jews humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human.