During the Holocaust, the SS Nazis dehumanized the Jews to the point of them feeling so belittled and like they were absolutely nothing. Eli Wiesel’s book Night gives many examples of this. Many Jews started referring to the others as “creatures”. Eli talks like this in his book: “The old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures. There they prayed” (70). He refers to a couple old veterans as “hunted-down creatures” because in the end, that’s how they all felt. They weren’t treated as humans in the camps. They were labeled by numbers and letters and stripped of everything, even their identity. Everything they owned or had any value was stolen. Eli’s father talks about this some, “As far as I’m concerned, this whole
