Jews in concentration camps were subject to appalling dehumanization while imprisoned. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel offers his testimony of the way Auschwitz captives were treated. German forces dehumanized Jews by stripping them of their identities, transporting them in cattle cars, and treating them as animals to harass for their own enjoyment. The SS rarely referred to the Jews as men. They tattooed each prisoner with a number for identification.…
Night Literary Analysis What do you believe in? What deity and set of laws rule your life? Elie Wiesel shares in his book Night the story of his family and father as they endure life in the concentration camps.…
In Elie Wiesel’s Night there are several examples of the physical, mental, and emotional dehumanization strategies used by the Nazis. One of the prime examples of this dehumanization is when Eliezer has an identification number tattooed on his arm and Wiesel writes, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). This quote shows clear dehumanization because Eliezer feels like he is nothing more than a number, and most likely the Nazis feel this way too. Eliezer and the other prisoners start to look at each other and themselves as less than human because of the way the Nazis treat them.…
There is no action any man, woman, or child can commit to deserve to have the most important, yet most basic thing taken away from them: their identity as a human being. Even though it is recognized as morally corrupt, it still happens today as an extremely unjustified form of punishment, more often than not against a group of victimized people who did nothing wrong. This holds true in one of the most atrocious events in history, the Holocaust, where a religion as a whole was put on trial and punished for nothing but the bigotry and hatred of those in the NAZI party. In Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir about a teenager in the Holocaust, Elie and his fellow Jews were dehumanized by being assigned numbers, being continuously beaten, and having lower living standards than that of normal people.…
What is the feeling of being dehumanized? How dramatic do actions towards other humans have to be before it is called dehumanization? Elie Wiesel, the author of the book “Night,” knows what dehumanization feels like. Concentration camps where millions of Jews-including Wiesel and his family-were forced to stay until they died of illness, shot by Germans, or lived long enough to be rescued. In Wiesel’s book “Night,” a tragic theme is dehumanization. Examples occur when they first arrive at the camp and the Jews are stripped of their dignity, beaten for no reason, and they are treated like animals.…
Dehumanization The Holocaust began January 30th in 1933 and ended May 8th of 1945. It happened during World War II. This Holocaust was also sometimes known as Shoah was ran by Adolf Hitler. Hitler plan was to exterminate all Jewish people.…
The horrible occurrences in Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust was a heartbreaking hell. Germans were ordered to treat Jews like they are nothing. Eliezer Wiesel, the famous author who wrote “Night”, survived the deadly obstacles from the destruction of Jews. It was a gruesome experience, but Elie learned and taught the importance of standing up for one another and to be thankful for the life that was given to one another.…
At this day in age, to disregard humanity is to break the law. Humanity is all of mankind, and all of mankind should be treated coordinately. One should not express thoughts of casualties towards humanity, one must accept it. A perspective of humanity shouldn’t cause others to feel pain and sorrow. These are all thoughts of Adolf Hitler, the sole character in which started the discrimination and killing of those inferior to him.…
“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today everything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories...” (Wiesel 30).…
The idea of genocide has existed around the world, ever since people struggled for wealth, resources, as well was superiority and power. As a result of a superior group of people formulating new ideas to make a society that is more perfect for them, they begin to curtail the civil liberties of those whom they consider inferior. This was undoubtedly the case in Night, when soldiers under rule of Hitler strived to obliterate the “inferior” Jewish population, which they believed were crippling their nation. Wiesel instills into the mind of the reader the extreme loathing exhibited by the Nazis—“Special units would then disinter the corpses and burn them.…
What exactly is dehumanization? One definition says that’s it's the process of depriving a person or group (in this case, groups) of positive human qualities. Dehumanization has differing effects on people than we may actually think since we’ve never come into contact with someone who has been necessarily dehumanized. Let’s look at dehumanized Victims. Victims are people that are harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action and our event would be the Holocaust, so obviously this would cause some major problems to these victims.…
Utopia… dystopia… its really just a matter of what people think is perfect and imperfect. In a utopia, everything is perfect and nothing could ever go wrong and it’s perfect for everyone. On the other hand, a dystopia is a place where things are dreadful because of certain people or certain things. By doing so, Hitler thought it was necessary that all the Jews be eliminated and not allowed to live. While Hitler was creating this so called “utopia”, it was really just a dystopia for all the Jews involved.…
The Dehumanization of the Jews Essay The genocide of the Jews during World War II is probably the most well-known terror in world history. Many question how this could have happened, how could millions of people be exterminated so thoroughly without resistance? What begin as a simmering hatred of a people group progressed in a systematic execution of the Jews not only physically, but it took every ounce of their human rights until they had nothing left; they were ground into the dirt. With the help of Elie Wiesel’s personal story in his memoir Night, he gives us insight on the physical and psychological terror that they endured at the hands of Hitler that dehumanized the Jews in a systematic, step-by-step process.…
The holocaust was genocide against the Jewish race. Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” was a firsthand view of what the Jewish people were put through at the hands of Nazi Germany. The concentration camp system methodically debilitated the prisoners through the heartless process of dehumanization. Each prisoner of the concentration camps was stripped of everything they had ever known, leaving them feeling worthless. This forced change through a loss of faith, loss of compassion and loss of physical health.…
Night assessment Prompt 1: During his year at the concentration camp, the main character of the novel, named Eliezer faced two internal conflicts. Eliezer’s first internal conflict was about keeping his religion. Wiesel recalls that, “Behind me, I hear the same man asking: ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows…’”…