Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

“The yellow star? Oh well what of it, you don’t die of it...” (Wiesel 5). This dialogue from a character in the novel expresses the hardships of the Jewish populations during the early time of the holocaust. Dehumanization is when a human feels like their life is not worth anything to even be alive anymore. They feel deprived of all their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a person was not worth anything, they would be sent to the gas chamber or an inferno. The Germans were a harsh army that desensitized the life of the Jewish. In the novel Night, translated by Marion Wiesel he describes how a life can be dehumanized at a split second. To begin with, The Jews of Sighet always felt inferior and less human to the German authority. It began with the major relocation of the Jews to the ghettos. Eliezer and his family moved into the larger ghetto community. The
They were all packed into tight cattle cars. During the long period of travel, they suffered cruel conditions including only having just enough room to breathe and scare living necessities. Several deaths occurred on the journey to their destination in Auschwitz. Eliezer went through terrifying experience on board the cattle car. Upon reaching a town the bystanders would throw bread into the cattle cars and sit there and watch as the Jews would fight and kill each other over the piece of bread. When they arrived to the concentration camp, they were separated by strong from the weak. They were stripped from their clothes. If they had any gold in their teeth, they were sent to the area where they would have them removed. Then the troops tattooed numbers on the Jews as a constant reminder that the Germans owned them and as means of an identification