Elie Wiesel once wrote “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” This quote came from his book “Night” which was about his experience is the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. In Wiesel’s novel night a tragic theme is dehumanization. Throughout the novel dehumanization occurs when the Jewish community is loaded into cattle cars,stripped of most of their personal belongings, and got tattoos of their number.…
Kate Sheppard once said, " All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhumane, and must overcome. " In other words, in human history, people were treated inhumanely in cases such as the Holocaust and slavery in the U.S. The Holocaust, mostly known for treating Jews like if they were animals, and with cruelty. For example, in the memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel, tells us about how cruel the Jewish people were treated.…
In the world today everyone believes in treating each other as equal as possible, but the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays a time where this was not the case. The true power of dehumanization is displayed throughout the book. The story follows Elie’s journey as a Jew during the Holocaust, from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania up to his liberation from a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Although Elie faced some of the worst the world has to offer; starvation, loneliness, and losing his family, perhaps what had the strongest impact on his life was the dehumanization he endured from the Germans. Contrary to many beliefs of dehumanization only having a minor impact on an individual, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the truth…
Support is important to succeed in surviving during troubling times. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, reveals the hardships and suffering endured by the Jews during the Holocaust. In many instances, Elie Wiesel wishes to give up. He contemplates, “God knows what I would have given for a few moments of sleep. But, deep down, I felt that to sleep meant to die.…
This act essentially diminishes and ultimately denies the humanity of the ‘other’ group. In this process, people are depicted as parasites, vermin and even diseases. Stanton emphasises the pivotal nature of this stage at it is through this process of dehumanization that we are able to justify the abhorrent acts that are to follow. The genocide against the Jews in the Holocaust is a perfect example of this occurring. The propaganda campaign against the Jews was fierce, Goebbels, the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda led the vilification and degradation of the image of the Jewish people.…
In society today, the world see people who are in power, stay in power due to economical benefits and their color of their skin. Since the dawn of time, there always have been people being oppressed by the more powerful. Such as the Nazis to the Jews and the Bourgeoisie to the Proletariat. The oppressed are the ponds on the chessboard because they are used and disposed. But in the end, the pond could be the defining factor of who becomes the queen.…
“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” This quote is from Eliezer Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, which is the story of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was during the 1940’s, in Germany. It’s hard to say Wiesel was lucky to live through this horrible period, as it’s more of how we are lucky that he survived, so we could experience the Holocaust through his eyes reading Night. The main point of this speech will be talking about humanity's plague, indifference.…
Dehumanization is the psychological or physical process of degrading the targeted group, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. Dehumanization can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. Dehumanization is prevalent in almost every case of genocide, the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide are two very good examples. Jews in the Holocaust were treated as subhuman and murder so germans would benefit. The Hutus were dehumanized and killed so Tutsis could prove superiority and gain power in Rwanda.…
The holocaust was genocide against the Jewish race. Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” was a firsthand view of what the Jewish people were put through at the hands of Nazi Germany. The concentration camp system methodically debilitated the prisoners through the heartless process of dehumanization. Each prisoner of the concentration camps was stripped of everything they had ever known, leaving them feeling worthless. This forced change through a loss of faith, loss of compassion and loss of physical health.…
The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families.…
Night assessment Prompt 1: During his year at the concentration camp, the main character of the novel, named Eliezer faced two internal conflicts. Eliezer’s first internal conflict was about keeping his religion. Wiesel recalls that, “Behind me, I hear the same man asking: ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows…’”…
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows a first hand experience of the atrocity that was the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the only name that comes to mind when most Americans hear the word “genocide”. These people show ignorance to the mistreatment of Americans that occurred in their own country. The internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World 2 was a clear example of racial discrimination. Although the death toll was no where near comparable to that of the Holocaust, it was still an unfair oppression that holds its place in American history.…
Dehumanizing is taking human rights, characteristics, and emotions away from any person. The Nazis took those rights away from the Jews to make them seem like animals or things. All of the Jews were dehumanized during the Holocaust. There are many examples of dehumanization throughout the book, Night by Elie Wiesel. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews by loading them into cattle cars, tattooing them, and when Eliezer was whipped.…
One way in which the Jews were dehumanized by being treated inhumanly is when the Nazis burned fully conscience people. At Auschwitz, there are crematories with “flames [and] in the air [the] smell of burning flesh” (26). The only things that are supposed to be thrown into crematories are dead people or animals which is out of respect for them. Not as cruelty, but as a last wish. However, it is an unjust crime of the Nazis to throw living people into burning fire; to feel unimaginable pain until their inevitable death.…
The violence and horror of the two World Wars and the Holocaust not only altered the Western notion of ‘religion’ and ‘secular’ but changed how society was understood. With the deaths of millions and a 90% wipe out of the Jewish race in Europe alone by the notions of one singular Germany party who rose to power through Germany’s weak years from the recovery of the First World War. Yet not all Germans were involved in this persecution nor did many of them actually understand fully the real horrors of what was occurring in their nation. From WW1 many people turned away from the church, one of the first great declines ever seen, yet they kept their faith in God. Thus when WW2 occurred and a great loss of live was seen once more people now turned…