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Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“To forget the dead would be achin to killing them a second time” by Elie Wiesel. The highest result of education is tolerance. Approxiamently six million Jews were killed during the holocaust. It shows how humanity was cruel in the past and that we still go through some of these things today. Wiesel wrote about how dehumanization can destroy a person. He wants to tell about his experience. He was sharing his knowledge with us. Dehumanization caused Elie to struggle with his faith because he wondered “what God would allow this”. It’s important because we cannot take away something from someone out of hatred. Elie’s father was beaten because the gypsy was angry at him, it’s sad that many people had to go through that. The Jews were stripped

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