Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel once said “For me, every hour is grace”. Wiesel is a survivor of the holocaust. In his book, Night, he writes about the grief he has endured during his time at Auschwitz. Wiesel gives the world a visionary how poorly Jews were treated. Throughout the course of events in his novel, Wiesel encounters countless acts of dehumanization. The start of dehumanization happened the Jews were forced to give up objects that held meaning to them. Another experience is when Wiesel’s family was forced into cattle cars, packed with people. The dehumanization continues when Jews would reach Auschwitz, where people were treated like animals.

After the Hungarian police barged into Sighet, Jews were not permitted to have any objects that held meaning to them. “A Jew no longer had the right to keep in his house gold, jewels, or any objects of value” (Wiesel, 8). Some Jews sold their beloved objects; others hid them, like Wiesel’s father. His father, Shlomo Wiesel, had no idea what was to come; no one did. He had hoped one day they would return to their home. Sadly, happy endings don’t always transpire. …show more content…
These cattle cars were packed with 80 people to a car. “There were so many of us, we could hardly breathe” (Wiesel, 22). The Jews were given some bread, and a few pails of water. The Gestapo made it clear that if one person were to escape, everyone was to be