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Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust took place from 1933-1945 led by Germans, more specifically Hitler. The memoir Night by Elie Weisel was written to tell people about the horrors of the Holocaust from his point of view. Weisel and all Jews from his town, Sighet, were removed and first sent to a ghetto then to multiple concentration camps in 1944. At first they believed this was a good thing, but came to find out it would be a terrible life altering experience. In chapters 1-3 of the book Night, the Jews were dehumanized in an immense amount of ways. The journey even to get to the camp was harsh and made the Jews feel more like cattle than humans. At their first stop a German officer said “There are eighty of you in this car.” A simple cattle car held eighty people, with no room to sit down, little air, and consequences to sounds of suffering. First of all they were left in there for over three days standing almost the whole time, like animals and not people on the road. With minimal stops, the waste piled up as well and they were living with that smell in the corner. As for the …show more content…

These people, these children never did anything wrong, but they never did anything extraordinary either. They just had no skills to offer so the Germans did not think that they needed to live life, a decent human life. It is just that the Jews were not seen as humans so ending their lives was an easy task. At one point the book even mentions children being dumped from train cars into the flames, almost like a bad supply of food or some product. These prisoners were killed in a ravage way in front of so many other people, and a human should never have to go through that which is one way dehumanization was

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