Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

Dehumanization affected the life of every Jew during the Holocaust. In the book Night by Elizer Wiesel, all the prisoners inside of the concentration camps are dehumanized and are not known as people but rather as numbers. The SS officers of these camps beat and physically and morally broke down each prisoner. They would face constant beatings by wipes and could get shot for almost nothing. One of the ways they were abused was with dehumanization the officers would belittle the Jews to a point where they were no longer seen as human but now as things or creatures that are a burden to the officers. Dehumanization strips people's identities from them and they are no longer seen as individuals but as groups of animals or things. One of the primary …show more content…
He was also hurt, so he had to worry about his own life as well. The officers would also have open killings to show dominance “Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked. For more than half an hour [the child in the noose] stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes (Wiesel 63). Watching this is hard on Elie. He starts to question his faith because he questions how God can let such unspeakable things happen. It's dehumanizing for them because it makes them question what they love and it's just another way the SS officers tried to prove that they are elite and the Jews and not humans and they are creatures who can just be killed and no one cares. Dehumanizing the Jews was a way for the Natzies to belittle and look down on them because they believed they were elite. It caused thousands of people to die and the Jews had to experience unthinkable things. They were not looked at as humans, but rather as animals. The officers would beat, starve, and kill the Jews because they wanted to feel elite. Dehuaminizing reduced people to nothing and stripped them of their identities, and Elie and his father had to face that every