What is the feeling of being dehumanized? How dramatic do actions towards other humans have to be before it is called dehumanization? Elie Wiesel, the author of the book “Night,” knows what dehumanization feels like. Concentration camps where millions of Jews-including Wiesel and his family-were forced to stay until they died of illness, shot by Germans, or lived long enough to be rescued. In Wiesel’s book “Night,” a tragic theme is dehumanization. Examples occur when they first arrive at the camp and the Jews are stripped of their dignity, beaten for no reason, and they are treated like animals. As soon as the Jews arrived in Birkenau and stepped foot onto the camp, they were being redirected to whom they were. Jews were sent to barracks
