Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The book Night By Elie Wiesel , Elie Wiesel tells the story of how he was sent to a concentration camp called Auschwitz, he struggles to keep his faith throughout all the terrible violent things that have happened to him. He also witnessed his fellow prisoners lose their faith and humanity throughout this awful experience. Elie Wiesel was sent to the concentration camps with his father, mother, and three sisters; most of his family died except his two older sisters that he soon met up with later in his life. Elie and his father went through so many terrible acts that the SS men did to them while in the concentration camps. During his time in the camp Elie and his fellow prisoners were constantly dehumanized and they were made to feel like they had no place in the world. Dehumanization is a very prominent theme for the story because it …show more content…

The SS men in the camp did many terrible violent things to them. “ I became A-7713 from then on, I had no other name.” (page 42) This quote shows how Elie and all the other prisoners had to get tattooed a number on their arms and be called that for the rest of the time they were in the camps. The SS men took away their names and stripped away everything that shaped their identity. Also the SS men made all the prisoners look the same so they could all feel like there was no place for them. Also the SS men’s form of dehumanization was abuse and the SS men were hurting the prisoners in many violent ways including, whipping , hitting, blows to the head, barley feeding them, forcing them to get tattoos of numbers on their arms that they have to live with forever, and much more. The prisoners had to live with these scars and memories for the rest of their lives and always have a memory of what it was like in the holocaust always in the back of their mind. It's a very awful experience that they went through while in the concentration

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