“At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.” This quote by Elie Wiesel explains the people that were Giving up after hunger and loss of family and he noticed these things everyday at the camps and lived to tell the tragic story in his book Night. Dehumanization was a major occurrence in the concentration camps which killed off over six million Jews. Lack of food, cramped and exhausting ways of transportation and separation of families during the Holocaust was the worst ways of dehumanizing the Jews and it was going on for years with no help. Food was scarce for the Jews in some areas around World War Two, so every little thing mattered evento the point of killing others. The Nazi’s gave them no food like they were dehumanizing …show more content…
‘“Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me...You’re killing your father… I have bread… for you to… for you to”’ (101). This quote is from the dying father being killed by his own son for a bread crumb and that’s how desperate the Jews were at this time. Without food for so long, it was turning people mad to where families were mauling each other without question. Why would anyone kill a family member over bread? Because they were only focused on one thing and one thing only. Food and as much as they could get even in the smallest quantities. “That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread” (115). To break down this quote it’s talking about the fact that after all the torture, all the death they just wanted food, no more, no less. Food had become such a big necessity to them they would not even care that their family might be dead and they’ll never see them again. That’s how bad the Nazi’s were dehumanizing them and treating them …show more content…
For hours and hours the Jews were stuck in cattle cars filled with about eighty people, not allowed to sit. ( because they couldn’t) Standing in temperatures of summer, but that doesn’t even compare to their winter travels. It’s frustrating to think that they were treated like cattle and dogs and the Germans think their doing the right thing. ‘“There are eighty of you in the car,” the German officer added.” If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs”’(24). They were just forced into a cattle cars and were told if they leave they will die, so one can guess how the Nazi’s like to make the Jews travel. From the lack of air and space, to sweating for hours, the way they transported the Jews is something no human should go through. The amount space in the cars was so small and it’s all becasue the Nazi’s thought that the Jews were evil so they treated them below others, even below animals. Later on their hate grows stronger by making them run for miles in the freezing cold. ‘“Don’t think, don’t stop, run!” Near me, men were collapsing in the dirty snow. Gunshots’(86). In this setting Jews are told to run through the snow for hours, which is a very cruel way of getting from one place to another. The thought of slowing down like Elie’s friend Zalman where they were either trampled or shot to death, shows how mad and driven the Nazi’s were at this time to make
(pg. 113) For them, food was equivalent to freedom. They fought aggressively like animals for a crumb of bread. It was unfair that prisoners were given a bit of soup or a slice of bread and shot at for being outside on sight .
During the time of 1933-1945 the Nazi’s implemented a series of dehumanizing actions towards the jewish. In the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel discusses his life before being deported to a concentration camp, his experience in concentrations camps, and how he was finally liberated. Through Wiesel, we are able to witness the way these unfortunate jewish people were stripped of their rights, experimented on and objectified. First of all, there were many laws that were being established that were specifically targeting the Jewish population as time was progressing in Nazi Germany. These laws made a huge impact and made it more difficult for the jewish community to live as “normal” human beings.
In the book Night and A Raisin in the Sun, they both shared the animal but were used in different situations. “The SS made is increase our pace.” Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” (85). This textual evidence shows how the SS officers were not even treating the Jews as humans; they were dehumanizing and mistreating them, causing them to have a loss of self and think about what they were doing. “Well, Lord knows, we’ve put enough rent into this here rat trap to pay for four houses by now” (44).
Lucky prisoners would find food lying around the camps or they would have people in their workplaces sneak them food. At night, prisoners would be given bread and a small piece of meat or cheese. The bread they were given was supposed to last them all night until the morning, so people would try to hide them in their beds, while they were asleep. The small rations were just meant to keep the prisoners alive so they weren’t completely starving. Many thousands of prisoners died from starvation or the illnesses caused by the lack of nutrition.
Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. The feeling of dehumanization was very common between the jews. They were constantly being treated as in they were animals. The author and narrator Elie Wiesel, personally experienced being treated like an animal
In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.
In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish
The German officer shouted, “There are eighty of you in the car, if anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (Wiesel 24). This shows that the Germans thought nothing of them. Instead the Germans compared the Jews to being like “dogs”, which showed that the Germans thought Jews were not worthy of being treated like a human. In conclusion, in World War II, the Jews were dehumanized because of their beliefs, they were treated as unworthy objects that are a burden to
One of Wiesel 's strengths in Night is to show the full face of dehumanization. It is something that the Nazis perpetrated against the people they imprisoned. The tattooing of numbers on the prisoners, something that Eleizer notes, is of extreme importance. A- 7713 is by definition an example of dehumanization because it robs the humanity of the individual. The abuses that the Nazis perpetrate on their prisoners is another example of dehumanization.
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.
Expository Report “We must do something, we can’t let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse, we must revolt”. These are the words from many men surrounding Elie Wiesel as he entered Auschwitz, calling out for rebellious toward the Germans harsh conditions. Of course they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, many thought that there was nothing wrong until boarding the cattle train that would send them off to their final resting place. Life during the holocaust was torturous to say the least, so much so that some 6,000,000 lives were taken during this time in Jewish descent alone. People of the Jewish descent did not have it easy; they either were forced out of their homes into concentration camps, or they would hide out only to be found and killed of they remained in their settlements.
Long Hours Of Darkness That dehumanization his like abusing someone to take away somebody's freedom as it how it was back then slavery the whites was treating the black like animals. In the book of night there is like groups of people that's fighting for freedom it's like dehumanization. What i read was the book called “Night” by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.
"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal,” as said by Chuck Palahniuk, the man himself. The term Holocaust has been studied by many different sceintists for over 30 years and The holocaust was a very murderous event killing over 11 million people. The man who lead the very murderous event was Adolf Hitler. In some schools, the teachers try not to even bring up the holocaust because they try to forget about it.
In the novel Night the protagonist, Elie Wiesel, narrates his experiences as a young Jewish boy surviving the Holocaust. Elie 's autobiographical memoir informs the reader about how the Nazis captured the Jews and enslaved them in concentration camps, where they experienced the absolute worst forms of torture, abuse and inhumane treatment. Dehumanization is shown in the story when the Jews were stripped of their identities and belongings, making them feel worthless as people. From the start of Elie Wiesel 's journey of the death camps, his beliefs of his own religion is fragile as he starts to lose his faith. Lastly, camaraderie is present as people in the camps are all surviving together to stay alive so as a result the people in the camp shine light on other people 's darkness.