Dehumanization The Jewish holocaust started in 1933. Every Jew living in a country controlled by Germany was sent to a concentration camp and was either killed or was on forced labor. The author of the novel Night, Elie Wiesel, was sent to a concentration camp with his family in Auschwitz in 1944. Few years after the holocaust ended, he decided to write a book about his experience in the concentration camp to show the world what happened during the holocaust. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is about humanity and reveals that people will lose their humanity when put in terrible situations. In the cattle car, that was heading to Auschwitz, with eighty people inside, Elie was in a cattle car with a woman called Mrs. Schächter.
