Hungarian Jews

just 100 days, and just like this genocide, the Holocaust had over 7 million deaths. Throughout history, there have been many genocides, all of which have similarities. Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel that was written to share his experience as a Jew during the Holocaust. Through the physical and mental abuses that occurred inside the concentration camps, Wiesel questioned God’s existence and thus his religious mind shifted its focus onto survival in times of crisis. Similarly, one of the most brutal

the jews and installed fear and hopelessness in them. “Night” also shows how Elie was dehumanized from a young and religious jewish boy to a blank, walking corpse by the end of the liberation. We ,as readers , see these acts of dehumanization throughout the book many times, but these three are the main

50,000. This is the number of helpless Jews that died at a concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen. Bergen Belsen (also called Belsen) was located between the cities of Bergen and Belsen in Northern Germany. Belsen wasn’t the ordinary concentration camp, but was still cruel and accounted for the lives of many people. Bergen-Belsen had a unique way their camp was set up. They didn’t just have one big camp like most of the other camps, they had their camp split up five ways in eight different sections:

had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tsiporah. When he was three years old he attended a jewish school and learned Hebrew. In 1942, the Hungarian government ruled that all jews who didn’t have citizenship would be sent to Nazi-held Poland and murdered. In March 1944, German soldiers came to Sighet and forced the Jews to wear yellow stars and put them on a train. The Wiesel family was the last one on the train. After four days, the train stopped at Auschwitz. Wiesel, then 15

The book begins with the author’s Jewish community witnessing a different community being taken away by the hungarian police. “Crammed into cattle cars by the hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were left crying. The train disappearded over the horizon. Hehind me, someone sighed, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’ The depotees were quickly forgotten

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

Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Cabbala (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrifying tale: the Gestapo (the German secret police force) took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods

Elie remembers, “‘The time has come… you must leave all this…’ The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples” (16). The Hungarian police had been edict and in charge of everyone there. Yitskhok had a similar experience to this when he is standing outside his window and he watches people get beaten. Another example

Brief History: Belzec, situated in Eastern Poland, was established by German SS officers as one of the first death camps, envisioned to wipe out the entire Jewish People during World War II. Belzec was one of three killing camps known as the "Reinhard camps:, in honour of the assassinated SS commander, Reinhard Heydrich. The killings that took place at Belzec, was amongst one of the highest numbers of deaths in Eastern Europe concentration camps. An archaeological expedition took place at the

were tortured for data on the war, they were selected, if fit, to take part in painful medical experiments by Doctor Josef Mengele. The most infamous part of the Auschwitz compound was the kill camp, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a repurposed Austro-Hungarian artillery barrack. All the camps had casualties, but Auschwitz main goal was to exterminate its population. Anyone unfit to work was sent to Auschwitz to be killed. These were usually the elderly, young children, and women not fit for working. They