The Holocaust began January 30th in 1933 and ended May 8th of 1945. It happened during World War II. This Holocaust was also sometimes known as Shoah was ran by Adolf Hitler. Hitler plan was to exterminate all Jewish people. Hitler and others such as Dr. Josef Mengele and also many Nazi’s help kill approximately, six million Jews. Dehumanization was a part of the process. Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person of positive human qualities. In the novel, Night the author Elie Wiesel wrote about many different scenarios of dehumanization.
One example of dehumanization was the tattoo Eliezer the main character received. They took his name from him and replaced it with a number. To those around him meaning the Nazi officers