Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir Night by Ellie Wiesel, he describes the events of surviving the holocaust and going to Auschwitz. Elie was born in Hungary, Once Hitler's forces arrived, there he was sent to the ghetto. Soon they get sent on trains to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sisters. He gets transferred from camp to camp until the end of the war when he is freed by the Red Army. Elie Wiesel and his prison mates have experienced terrible things throughout their experience with the Nazis in the concentration camps, eventually degrading them and dehumanizing them. Before Ellie is sent to a camp his town wonders what will happen to the Jews. “Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people?”(8). The Jews of Elie's town doubt Hitler's ability to

Ellie and his family are sent to Auschwitz. There they are separated. “Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.”(29). Once Elie arrives at Auschwitz he is separated from his mother and 2 sisters never to see his mother and younger sister again. This is terrible for a young teenager who is separated from her mother never to see her again. This is dehumanizing because he is leaving a role model and one of the most important people in his life. A group of people in the camp get in to smuggle weapons in. However, they are caught, and hanging among them is a young child. “ But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour” (65). When a child gets in trouble for hiding weapons he is sentenced to death. However, he is not heavy enough to be hung so he just hangs there gasping for air “for more than half an hour”. This is extremely dehumanizing because a young child's life is being extinguished by the ruthless Nazis. Once the Jews are freed by the Red