Dehumanism In Night By Elie Wiesel

Anne Frank once wrote “Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we hear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, then it is over, then Jews, instead if being doomed, will be held up as an example.” The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about what and how Elie, and other Jewish people, felt due to the barbarity they witnessed and endured in many concentration camps during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is one of the most mournful events in history, which left the world as a bystander to how people were stripped of their lives and treated like they
In the first camp, prisoners like Elie was stripped of everything they had and owned. For instance, Elie states, “Strip! Hurry up! Rous! . . . our clothes were to be thrown on the floor at eh back of the barrack. There was a pile there already. . . . Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies” (Wiesel 35).
This represents how the Jewish people become prisoners starting how they had owned valuables and body to be given rages and unsecure resources. In the first camp. Prisoners, In including Elie names were replaced with numbers like they were nothing. Another key point, Elie states,“I became A - 7713. From then on, I had no other name”(Wiesel 42). This demonstrates how Elie and other prisoners becomes another number imprisoned, killed, or lost due to being in these concentration camps that was meant to destroy their lives and many others. The guards were so cruel to the prisoners and Elie by insulting them in anyway especially abuse like they were not human to them. For this reason, Elie states,“Faster, you filthy dogs! We were no longer marching, we were running . . . If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog” (Wiesel 85). This illustrates how insultings of the SS guards towards the prisoners were so cruel that they use it as their advantage to bring them
Elie entering his first concentration camp his first changed in his faith in god because of the the terrible things he witnessed. For example, Elie states,“Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (Wiesel 34). This represents how Elie’s lost in hope from what he had witnessed was like he lost his life, and faith had changed in god. The only hope Stein had was his family and without them he has nothing to live for, so he gives up to live. Therefore, Elie states,“The only thing that keeps me alive, is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up! We never saw him again. He had been given the news. The real news” (Wiesel 45). This is relevant because Elie lied to Stein to keep some hope in him until he was finally found out his family was gone so was his hope and life. Being in the camp had destroyed the prisoners so poorly and horribly that the Akiba Drumer took his death walk on the first selection because his hope because of his faith in god was faiting. Finally, Elie states,“Poor Akiba Drumer, if only I could have kept his faith in God . . . But as soon as he felt the first thinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death” (Wiesel 77). This suggests that just being in these concentration