Night By Elie Wiesel Dehumanization In Night
Dehumanization in the Night
Do you know how many people died during the time of the Holocaust? The number went up to eleven million deaths. Six million of them were Jews. Which left only three million Jewish people alive. Here is one story. In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, Tattoo, Star of David, and Transporting are ways the Jew were dehumanized. One way of dehumanization was the tattoo on their arms. The tattoo was a series of letters and numbers. Elie Wiesel numbers were A-7713. “I became A-7713. From then on. I had no other names” (42). The Germans got rid of their names. They were unique series of letters and numbers. The Second way the Germans dehumanize the Jews was The Star of David. The Jews had to wear a star that said “Jews.”
Do you know how many people died during the time of the Holocaust? The number went up to eleven million deaths. Six million of them were Jews. Which left only three million Jewish people alive. Here is one story. In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, Tattoo, Star of David, and Transporting are ways the Jew were dehumanized. One way of dehumanization was the tattoo on their arms. The tattoo was a series of letters and numbers. Elie Wiesel numbers were A-7713. “I became A-7713. From then on. I had no other names” (42). The Germans got rid of their names. They were unique series of letters and numbers. The Second way the Germans dehumanize the Jews was The Star of David. The Jews had to wear a star that said “Jews.”