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Night Dehumanization Quotes

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Dehumanization “In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a jewish boy from Transylvania and is taken to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister. His father and Elie are moved the the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then had to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to get there. They spent about 3 days there and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance part that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.

In “night” we see how the Jewish people are being oppressed and dehumanized in so many ways. One example is “I became A-7713. From now on, I had no other name” (PG.42). This quote shows how they were stripped of their identities and replaced it with a simple number. As if they were just a number on a sheet of paper. We see in the book how the Nazis only see the Jewish people as numbers and had no knowledge of their actual lives or their identities. They are also given such little amounts of food, …show more content…

Elie showed me how cruel they were to the Jews even when seeing that most of them were very hurt. They even burned innocent children for just being Jewish. The Germans treated these horrible acts as if they were just everyday chores they had to do, like feed the dog or clean the house. Most of the Germans just ignored the Jewish people's emotions. Ultimately, the jews were oppressed in many ways and dehumanized to the point where they even hated themselves. Which in the end helped Hitler change the views of Jewish people to the German

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