Analysis Of Eliezer Wiesel´s Night: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

When Elie 's time at the concentration camps is about to end, Wiesel notes, in regard to the American troops that liberated his camp, "It was decided they would evacuate us all at once" (Wiesel 114). The concentration camp is about to be liquidated, and they want everyone out. The troops also wanted to get to as many camps as possible and not waste time as they swept through Germany. Many of the occurrences in the anecdote are important in the history of World War II, as well as that of the concentration camps, and the memoir will inform readers on this topic as they study Wiesel 's

In the eleven documents we’ve viewed, its easy to see that the Germans have taken away basic human rights of the Jewish people. They've abused and practically tortured these poor Jewish people. Not to mention, the Jewish people have done nothing wrong to the Germans or Hitler, they just blamed them for the hyperinflation. Lastly, These Jewish people have a right to live their lives to the fullest and to the best of their ability and the Germans ripped that away from them. And once again, they did nothing wrong.

After reading more of Elie Wiesel’s haunting life story, he describes the horrendous things he witnessed while in the concentration camp and, how the prisoners were treated in the most gruesome ways. When they first get to Auschwitz, the Jews are given a number then doctors use needles to brand it onto each captive’s forearm. From then on the prisoners were not known by name but, by their number. This was just one of the degrading things that the Jews were forced to endure. Another hardship they faced was the verbal and physical abuse not only from the guards but, from the other prisoners as well.

Article 5, which states that that people can’t be tortured or treated cruelly, was broken. “ You will be burned, turned to ashes”(Pg. 31,Wiesel) was said by a prisoner to Wiesel and his father. “He began beating him with an iron bar.” ( ,Wiesel) another quote from Night which gives proof to cruelty of Jews.

During the time of the Holocaust, many human rights were violated. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the holocaust, and has written the book titled Night describing what life was like for him and others during the harsh time. His book has become very popular because is shows awareness of how bad the times were. Wiesel says, “The SS officers were doing the selection: the weak to the left; those who walked well, to the right.” (Page 96)

Unfortunately, these sacred rights have been disrupted on multiple occasions such as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the killing of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Several confirmations about the infringement of human rights have been expressed in the Holocaust based novel Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is the life, sacrifices, difficulties and torture Elie faced throughout the Holocaust. The novel reveals numerous ruptures of human rights.

The first instance when this occurred was when the Jewish children were thrown into the scorching fire at Auschwitz. In the autobiography, Night, Elie recollects, “Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames.(Is it any wonder that ever since then sleep tends to elude me?).”(32). This statement suggests that Elie and all of the other Jews had to witness the burning of these babies and small children, which will haunt them forever. Also the children that were burned were going through one of the worst torments possible as they were dieing, this is excessively against Article Five. Elie also recalls, “ I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip.

While the Holocaust was not the first time in history such a need was apparent, it was the most blatant example of atrocities against humans. The purpose of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to “establish rights to life, liberty, property, security, education, employments, and freedom from torture, freedom of thought, conscience and religion” (UDHR pdf). It is designed in such a way to protect people from ever being treated so inhumanely again. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (UDHR pdf). This is one of many basic rights that was violated as described by Elie in Night.

Unfortunately, these sacred rights have been disrupted on multiple occasions such as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the killing of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Several confirmations about the infringement of human rights have been expressed in the Holocaust based novel Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is the life, sacrifices, difficulties and torture Elie faced throughout the Holocaust. The novel reveals numerous ruptures of human rights.

Will Human Rights ever be achieved? Will society forever go on, day to day, knowingly contributing to the violation of people’s inalienable rights? Human rights are something that many activists have tried to achieve til this day but failed. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a detailed memoir, of the tragedy he and many other endured during the Holocaust. In the book, Night, Mr. Wiesel and family were Jewish, during the holocaust they were taken from their home and transferred to several concentration camps.

The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.

During World War II, Hitler and his Nazis ruled Germany declaring Jews and various other races inferior. Afterwards, all Jews in Germany were rounded up and sent to different concentration camps all throughout Germany. Most people sent to the camps were gassed; however, some were experimented on for the Nazi’s own gain. There were terrible, traumatizing experiments that took place on these camps, horrible experiences for all victims. The gruesome experiments that took place during the Holocaust are abhorrent because the experiments they performed, the procedure of the tests, and the ethical conflicts that these despicable tests left behind.

Wiesel utilizes the events in his novel to demonstrate the effect of guilt on the character development of Elie. While his identity is already shaped by his stay at the concentration camp, Elie’s inability to take action and tell the truth shapes him even more as it is shown through his experiences. Elie feels guilty when sees himself surviving while the people around him have a different fate. This leads to internal struggles where he struggles with deciding whether it's better to die than survive because he feels that at times that life isn’t worth living after being aware of his surroundings. The concentration camp changes Elie and leaves him traumatized with the memories he experiences there, which leads him to believe that dying might be the only way to eliminate his guilt.

Elie Wiesel was truly a courageous figure during the torturous years of the Holocaust. In his best selling novel titled Night, Elie portrays many events that completely shatter most human rights laws established by modern day activists such as the United Nations. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there are thirty different articles established to protect us from people violating our treasured human rights. Within the declaration, two articles really stand out for Elie’s situation such as article five and eighteen. Both of these articles accurately despic great human rights violations that were performed throughout Elie’s experience during the mournful Holocaust.

In which millions of Jews were innocently killed and persecuted because of their religion. As a student who is familiar with the years of the holocaust that will forever live in infamy, Wiesel’s memoir has undoubtedly changed my perspective. Throughout the text, I have been emotionally touched by the topics of dehumanization, the young life of Elie Wiesel, and gained a better understanding of the Holocaust. With how dehumanization was portrayed through words, pondering my mind the most.