Dehumanization Of The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Night

A horrifying story of a family during a time of death and war must find a way to stay together and survive one of the most horrific events in history. The novel night follows a fifteen-year-old boy who travels with his family to Auschwitz. Elie’s mother and sisters are sent to a death chamber meaning that Elie and his father are the only family they have left. Sadly, this is the tale of many Jewish families during World War II and the holocaust. While Elie is at Auschwitz he and the rest of the people at the concentration camp are put through a series of events that will change their lives forever. The Nazis have an evil system designed to dehumanize every Jewish person they can find. The book Night shows that the fastest way to dehumanize
" ‘A-7713!’ I stepped forward. A crate!" he ordered. They brought a crate. "Lie down on it! On your belly!" I obeyed. I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip ’Twenty-four…twenty-five!’ It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted. I came to when they doused me with cold water. I was still lying on the crate. In a blur, I could see the wet ground next to me. Then I heard someone yell. It had to be the Kapo. I began to distinguish what he was shouting: ‘Stand up!’” This public humiliation and beating makes the prisoners feel like they are isolated and they are a piece of trash that no one cares about. This can be extremely humiliating and dehumanizing. In the book Sold the brothel owner Mumtaz uses a stick covered in hot chili to stick inside them and let them suffer. Patricia Writes, “Mumtaz will smear chilies on a stick and put it inside the girl, and that all of us will be awake through the night, listening to the girl moan.” Public brutality is a very fast way to make someone terrified and ashamed to see other people. Public beating can play a huge role in making some feel like they are not a human, but a thing that can be tossed
By taking away their name and clothing people are left to feel like nothing and not who they truly are. When you take away resources people loss compassion for other lives and begin to act like animals. In the novel Night there is a man who kills his own father just so he could have more bread for himself. The public hangings and beating that are very prominent in Night make the Jewish people feel like they are something that can be beat and treated like animals or a piece of trash. Although there are many ways to make someone lose their sense of humanity this is the fastest way possible. This is something that everyone should be aware of because this is one of the worst things that can be done to a