The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish people by depriving them of physiological needs. Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald were the main concentration camps that Elie was sent to. Being that food, sleep, and shelter are the main sources of life, they were stolen` from everyone in the concentration camps. “ We never ate enough to satisfy our hunger” ( Page 23). “ I became A-771. From then on, I had no other name” ( page 42). …show more content…
“ I soon forgot him. I began to think of myself again.” (page 86). After being in survival mode for so long, it became a state of everyone for themselves. While all the Jew were running what seemed like an endless and painful run, they eventually made it to a rest stop, an abandoned village. Here they caught their breaths and regained focus just for a short while, then they were back at it. “ My eyes opened and I was alone, terrible alone in a world without God, without man” (page 68). After seeing some of the brutal action that took place in the concentration camps, he began to question God and everything around him. The feeling of being alone with nobody to talk is a stage of neglect of love and