Essay On Dehumanization In Night

Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. When the jews went to the concentration camps they did not know what was happening because they trusted Hitler. The jews were taken from their homes and put in ghettos, then put in cattle cars. After the jews got to the camps and were immediately dehumanized, they were put into groups of guys and women and then it all started. In the memoir night by Elie Wiesel it explains how the Nazis dehumanized the jews in the camps, they took away their name and gave them number, they put them in cattle cars, and they took away their belongings.
The first way they were dehumanized was when they got to the camps they took away their names and gave them numbers. Wiesel
Wiesel says, “Our clothes were to be thrown on the floor at the back of the barrack.” (Wiesel pg. 35) They took their clothes and did not give them a lot to wear, even in the cold winter. The only thing they gave them to keep warm at night was blankets, but they had to share them with the others in their bunk with them. Wiesel also states, “Kapos came in to check if, by chance, somebody had a new pair of shoes. If so we had to hand them over.” (Wiesel pg. 38) The Nazi’s did not want them to have anything new or anything of their own. Wiesel did not have to give his up his new shows because they were covered in mud.
The Naiz’s treated the jews like animal even though they did not do anything wrong. Hitler dehumanized the jews so much to if they did make it out of the camps, they would not even realize their own body anymore. The jews were dehumanized to when they got put in the ghettos to when they died or got their freedom. Many lost everything, families, friends, and even their lives in the Holocaust. They were dehumanized by taking their names, putting them in cattle cars, and taking their belongings