In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his life during World War II. He describes how he is a Jew and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where the Nazis tortured and abused the Jews physically and mentally. As a result, it caused the Jews to do things that a human being would not normally do. The Nazis had such an effect on the Jewish people that they turned the Jews into ruthless savages and apathetic animals, which dehumanized them to act like animals. The memoir starts off introducing Moishe the Beadle a foreign jew. He was not like the other Jewish people in his community, he liked to be out of people's way, he was awkward and very shy. Elie would be one of the only people to talk to Moishe the Beadle. They would talk about God and about the Kabbalah´s Revelations. Moishe the
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When the Jewish people are first taken to the concentration camp, they were forced to get tattooed a number on their left arm. Elie said, ¨I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name¨ (Wiesel 42). He and the rest of the Jews had been stripped of their identity. This was only one way that they had been deprived of their human qualities. Another example was at the part in the book when the people were brought into the camp, they were told to get into a lines, it was called the selection process. Women and children were sent one direction while men were sent in a another. The women and children were sent to what was called the crematorium to be burned to death because there was no need for them at the camp. At the time in the book Elie did not know that his mom and sister Tzipora were going to be sent there. He said when they were separated, ¨I didn't know that this was the moment in time when the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora (his sister) forever¨ (Wiesel 29). The only reason the men were kept alive was because they were forced to do hard
When the Jewish people are first taken to the concentration camp, they were forced to get tattooed a number on their left arm. Elie said, ¨I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name¨ (Wiesel 42). He and the rest of the Jews had been stripped of their identity. This was only one way that they had been deprived of their human qualities. Another example was at the part in the book when the people were brought into the camp, they were told to get into a lines, it was called the selection process. Women and children were sent one direction while men were sent in a another. The women and children were sent to what was called the crematorium to be burned to death because there was no need for them at the camp. At the time in the book Elie did not know that his mom and sister Tzipora were going to be sent there. He said when they were separated, ¨I didn't know that this was the moment in time when the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora (his sister) forever¨ (Wiesel 29). The only reason the men were kept alive was because they were forced to do hard