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    Dehumanization in the Night Do you know how many people died during the time of the Holocaust? The number went up to eleven million deaths. Six million of them were Jews. Which left only three million Jewish people alive. Here is one story. In the novel‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Tattoo‚ Star of David‚ and Transporting are ways the Jew were dehumanized. One way of dehumanization was the tattoo on their arms. The tattoo was a series of letters and numbers. Elie Wiesel numbers were A-7713. “I became

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    “Bread‚ soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” said Elie Wiesel in his book separating his mind and body. In the memoir‚ Night by Elie WieselWiesel tells his story of his experience in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and of how he survived. He experienced all this along with his father‚ who may have decreased more than increased his survival in some of the events that occurred in the

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    today’s world‚ we are taught that it is acceptable to be different and to be proud of who we are. However‚ as we know‚ that has not always been the case. In school‚ we recently read Night by Elie Wiesel. His story‚ like so many others‚ shares his horrific experience during the Holocaust. He struggled to believe in his faith as the world around him crumbled. His story teaches us that we have to stand strong even when it feels easier to give up. I am an observant Jew‚ and for me‚ it has always been hard

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    forget those moments that murmured my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” This depressed quotation comes from a Elie Wiesel‚ the man who tries to influence public to hear victims’ voice with his wisdom‚ courage‚ knowledge and love‚ and is well known and respected for his significant contributions in respect to the Holocaust and world humanities. As the author of Night‚ he is the victim of war as well. He used to be deported to concentration camp and lost his most loved people there‚ but

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    English 9 honors/Pre-AP/Period 1 25 April 2013 Section 3 1) F-Tzipora 2) G-Stein of Antwerp 3) D-Madame Schachter 4) B-Moshe the Beadle 5) 6) H-Dr. Menglele 7) D- Madame Schachter 8) B- Moshe the Beadle 9) C- Mr. Wiesel 10) B-Moshe the Beadle Section 4 1. Holocaust- A great or complete devastation or destruction‚ especially by fire. 2. Synagogue- A synagogue is a Jewish house of worship‚ often having facilities for religious instruction. 3. Cabbala-Cabbala

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    Literary Paragraph In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are specific events that occur causing characters to begin to lose faith in God or their gods. Elie explicitly says in the book‚ “How could such a good God could let this happen to his people.”(something along those lines) Faith is a way people can connect with a higher being and use that connection to shape their lives. It is said that true faith in God is only shown under true conditions of struggle or pain. Evidence from the text about

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    camps. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ he describes in detail the horrific events and tragedies that he experienced during the concentration camps. He talks about how he lost his family and how his relationship with his father transitions throughout the story. Elie describes how his relationship with his father evolves from them being distant‚ to them getting closer‚ to Elie helping his dad‚ to his dad becoming his burden. Before life in the concentration camps‚ Elie Wiesel recounts about how he

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    The Evils and Format of Night The novel Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ tells about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. It is an extraordinary work telling the terrifying and real life experiences from the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors of the holocaust‚ and tells his miraculous story of what he went through and how he survived a long‚ life threatening year in the camps. The Holocaust was a time period in the

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    vastly between the two authors. Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945 (Night book.). Elie became motivated to write this novel because he felt he was obligated to share the gruesome experiences felt by Jews during that time period. Many scholars agree that “Elie Wiesel wrote the book "Night" as a memoir of his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. He calls himself a "messenger

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    The Horrors of Dehumanization “The Almighty himself was a slaughterer: it was He who decided who would live and who would die; who would be tortured‚ and who would be rewarded” (Wiesel‚ “Hope‚ Despair”). The author of Night‚ a novel documenting the horrible and gruesome events of the holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel expresses his experiences and observations in which he and his fellow Jews were dehumanized while living in concentration camps. All Jews‚ as a race‚ were brutalized by the Nazis during this

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