The Nazi's deliberately chose dehumansing ways to kill, and used torture, to intimidate and terrify the Jews.…
As a survivor of the inhumane, annihilating Holocaust, Elie Wiesel once said, “Having survived by chance, I was duty–bound to give meaning to my survival.”(“Having Survived”1). Elie Wiesel did not know at the time that he had a reason for surviving this tragedy, but soon realized that he survived to offer a story and message about the horrors of that time to a world that often seemed to block it out completely and forget (“Having Survived”1).To spread his message to the world, which is one of peace, redemption, and human nobleness, Wiesel speaks all over the world as a public orator. (“Elie Wiesel” 3). Elie Wiesel, an influential speaker and writer of the 1940s to present times, helped to render a further understanding of the abomination of The Holocaust through eloquence and deep thought, elaborate actions, and most of all, his strong traditional values.…
Throughout the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells us what it is like to be a Jew in the Holocaust. As a 15 year old boy Elie sees more awful things during the course of the different camps in Europe that we will see in our lifetime. Elie’s relationship with humanity changes from frustrated to no longer having any humanity left as he journeys from Sighet to freedom.…
When you and your family are all forced into a death camp, separated, and treated as subhuman, you tend to protect the only ones you love enough to risk your life for. In the camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, one teenager and his father find themselves in exactly that dilemma, starving and with only each other to rely on. Elie Wiesel, a child thrown into these camps with his father, miraculously survived and went on to write about his experiences and struggles, most notably in his memoir Night. This book shows what really happened behind the scenes of Nazi Germany during World War 2, things that would not be revealed for years to come. And more specifically, it shows how Elie's relationships to his father and to the…
The Holocaust destroyed 11,000,000 people's lives. It’s hard to imagine people being killed just because of their religion. Men, women, the elderly, children; all Jewish families were separated. In his book “Night”, Elie Wiesel, who was separated from his mother and sister, describes his experiences and the inhumane conditions he endured at the concentration camps at the hand of German officers. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.…
In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel tells the story of his life in the Auschwitz concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania and was only a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home he called the “ghetto”. Although they all had been worn by Moishe the Beadle, about his terrible story in which no one believed him and though he was a mad man. Nevertheless the Germen army arrived shortly, and all Jews where obligated to wait outside until there train was to come for them and take them. Once in the train arrived and it was there; soon it was Elie Wiesel and his family turn to get, on lying down was not an option or even siting down. The air was little and there was little food and thirst became a big problem as so did the heat. Then the train stop in Kaschau in Czechoslovakia and a German officer stepped in and told all the Jews in the train that they were know under the German army authority and to give them all there gold and silver. The Jews where treated like dogs and threaten to get shot if anyone went missing. After that the train continued to its destination, with in the train there was a woman named Mrs. Schachter a woman in here fifties started to cry out “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” she did this many times and the Jews got tired of it after a while so the beat her, so she would stop crying. Once they arrived to their final destination Auschwitz she scram fire for the last time, but this time there was fire and shortly everyone had to get off the train the air smelled like burning flesh. After getting off Elie Wiesel was separated from his mother and sisters with he never saw again but stayed with his father. After separated Elie Wiesel saw as children and old where being burned and hoped it was all just a dream. Elie Wiesel was close to being thrown in the fire pit, but instead him and his father where forced to run to the showers and then to Block 17 where…
One of the most historical acts of evil and cruelty was the genocide of Jews in Europe executed by the Nazi party lead by Hitler. It is estimated that six to nine million Jews were killed through the use of devices such as gas chambers. One must know why an act of such evil was ever convened, how the Jewish people reacted, and how terrible genocide seized to exist.…
Dehumanization- to deprive of human qualities or attributes. The Holocaust was a dark time, where a man named, Adolf Hitler, who hated anyone who in his eyes who were not perfect, like Gypsies, the disabled, and especially anyone who was Jewish. The people who Hitler hated were taken to places called concentration camp where they would almost certainly meet their demise unless they were rescued by the Americans or the Soviets. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel explains, and illustrates his struggles in the infamous, Auschwitz, which was the most inferior concentration camp. The Holocaust was a terrible time for mankind, the Jews, and the people who Hitler did not see as “perfect.” People were taken to concentration camps, and dehumanized until they became beasts of burden without rights or belongings.…
Amongst the many events that the world has captured in history books, the holocaust is one that is recognized by almost everyone. The Holocaust was a controlled, state financed torture and killing of roughly six million Jews by the Nazi government led by Adolf Hitler. While many Jews died in the concentration camps, there are some who made it out alive and told their story. Their witness accounts contribute information the world needs to understand what really took place in Germany and the concentration camps. Author, Elie Wiesel, voices his time in the Nazi concentration camps, in his autobiographical novel, Night. Throughout the story, Wiesel physically, mentally, and spiritually changes due to the horrific events of the holocaust.…
During the Holocaust, over 11 million people were killed. 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he speaks about a young boy named Elie Wiesel. This novel also explained his thoughts/feelings during the tragic event. During, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.…
Dehumanization is defined as the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worth of humane treatment. It also can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. When there is severe hatred and aversion towards a different group, it can direct to classifying the rival as inhuman and treating them with bestial punishment. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Jews were victims of the Nazis and were dehumanized to the equivalence of animals, treated horribly, and faced with the challenge of survival daily.…
Dehumanization is when others view human beings as less than human, it is the deprival of positive human qualities. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel he explains the dehumanization of himself, his family, and his fellow Jews throughout their journey from going to many different camps during the Holocaust. He is a fifteen year old boy from the town of Sighet, but was deported into concentration camps where he faced starvation, abuse, and more horrific things. Hitler and the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not calling them by their names, giving them commands like they are animals, treating them horribly, starving them, and transporting them to different camps in cattle trucks. This…
The Jews were dehumanized in many ways by the Nazi’s. Dehumanization is making humans feel like less than people. Three ways the Nazis dehumanized the Jews was by starvation, being treated like animals and, physical abuse. Here are examples of all three of those dehumanizing methods.…
During the Holocaust Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man. Before the Holocaust started in the middle of 1900’s. Elie Wiesel was an outgoing kid; he was a spiritual kid as well as sensitive little boy and had faith in god. He lived with his mom, dad, and little sister. As the days and month went past by. Stuff began to change in Germany the place where they were from. German soldiers made a lot of changes.…
Elie Wiesel, a convict in the Holocaust, weakened physically yet determined emotionally, went on to “provide a sober yet passionate testament of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II” (“Elie Wiesel”). Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania; He had a family of six, a mother, father, and sisters who were killed during the devastation that is the Holocaust. Sighet, Romania subjoined Hungary in 1940; Germany invaded and took over in 1944. Jews were put into ghettos and their paraphernalia was confiscated (Elie). Terror was…