Dehumanization In Eliezer Wiesel's Night
In the holocaust, the Nazis severely dehumanized the Jewish people and made them to be lesser people. In the novel Night, in Eliezer’s town all was tranquil, until the Nazis arrived and completely changed his life and the lives of the other Jews in his town. In the launch of the invasion by the Nazis, they had not bothered to identify which individuals were Jews by their name, but the Jews were required to wear a Jewish star to be easily identifiable, dehumanizing them. In addition, the Nazis made the Jews gather outside in a large, orderly fashion. This triggered Eliezer to utter a statement that,” there no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others; we were all people condemned to the same fate still unknown.”
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For example, when Eliezer and the other Jews being shipped to the camp were crammed into small box cars, and given little food. When they arrived they were stripped of their clothes and stood in the cold, awaiting instruction. Consequently, the Jews had been completely stripped of their name, and Eliezer stated,” I became A-7713, from then on, I had no other name.” The Nazis stripped the Jews of what little bit of humanity they had left, their names. Inside the camps, their names were the least of their problems, and hunger became their lives. Indecently, they were only given a bowl of soup and a piece of bread daily, and were worked extremely hard and, in addition, were made to run around the camp or sit in cold mud. In one instance when Eliezer had stumbled upon Idek having intimate relations with a woman, which angered Idek immensely. Eliezer was later lashed for this and was lashed so severely that he could not walk or stand.
Although there were hundreds of deaths daily inside of the camp Eliezer accompanied, the public hanging seemed to become increasingly more traumatic for the prisoners of the camp. In one instance two men were hanged in front of the thousands of prisoners, being extremely quiet and full of solidarity for the victims, unlike those burned in the crematoria. They were all forced to take their hats off, and walked by these men, often staring into their
For example, when Eliezer and the other Jews being shipped to the camp were crammed into small box cars, and given little food. When they arrived they were stripped of their clothes and stood in the cold, awaiting instruction. Consequently, the Jews had been completely stripped of their name, and Eliezer stated,” I became A-7713, from then on, I had no other name.” The Nazis stripped the Jews of what little bit of humanity they had left, their names. Inside the camps, their names were the least of their problems, and hunger became their lives. Indecently, they were only given a bowl of soup and a piece of bread daily, and were worked extremely hard and, in addition, were made to run around the camp or sit in cold mud. In one instance when Eliezer had stumbled upon Idek having intimate relations with a woman, which angered Idek immensely. Eliezer was later lashed for this and was lashed so severely that he could not walk or stand.
Although there were hundreds of deaths daily inside of the camp Eliezer accompanied, the public hanging seemed to become increasingly more traumatic for the prisoners of the camp. In one instance two men were hanged in front of the thousands of prisoners, being extremely quiet and full of solidarity for the victims, unlike those burned in the crematoria. They were all forced to take their hats off, and walked by these men, often staring into their