When the Jewish people are first taken to the concentration camp, they were forced to get tattooed a number on their left arm. Elie said, ¨I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name¨ (Wiesel 42). He and the rest of the Jews had been stripped of their identity. This was only one way that they had been deprived of their human qualities. Another example was at the part in the book when the people were brought into the camp, they were told to get into a lines, it was called the selection process. Women and children were sent one direction while men were sent in a another. The women and children were sent to what was called the crematorium to be burned to death because there was no need for them at the camp. At the time in the book Elie did not know that his mom and sister Tzipora were going to be sent there. He said when they were separated, ¨I didn't know that this was the moment in time when the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora (his sister) forever¨ (Wiesel 29). The only reason the men were kept alive was because they were forced to do hard
When the Jewish people are first taken to the concentration camp, they were forced to get tattooed a number on their left arm. Elie said, ¨I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name¨ (Wiesel 42). He and the rest of the Jews had been stripped of their identity. This was only one way that they had been deprived of their human qualities. Another example was at the part in the book when the people were brought into the camp, they were told to get into a lines, it was called the selection process. Women and children were sent one direction while men were sent in a another. The women and children were sent to what was called the crematorium to be burned to death because there was no need for them at the camp. At the time in the book Elie did not know that his mom and sister Tzipora were going to be sent there. He said when they were separated, ¨I didn't know that this was the moment in time when the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora (his sister) forever¨ (Wiesel 29). The only reason the men were kept alive was because they were forced to do hard