Was the Holocaust seen differently in the eyes of others? How did the SS officers go home to their families after torturing innocent people? Why was it only Jewish people that got attacked and dehumanized? A brave man by the name of Elie Wiesel wrote a touching book titled “Night”. Elie at the time, was a young teenage boy who survived the Holocaust. In the Holocaust, many innocent people were being tortured due to lack of food, sleep, shelter, and much more. SS officers would only allow one ration of bread and one ration of soup everyday. Sleep wasn't much better, they were forced share a bunk with one other person. The German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the Jewish prisoners by depriving them of Sleep, shelter, and food.
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
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