Pain In Elie Wiesel's Night

Pain The Holocaust was a very depressing, and a very destructive time for the world. It damaged everyone who went through it or experienced it mentally or physically. The Holocaust stripped people of their human rights. They were dehumanized, every human right they had was taken away. Elie Wiesel wrote a book titled Night the book was about his experience throughout the Holocaust, and the book states how traumatizing it really was. Elie Wiesel and his family got thrown into the Holocaust at his young age of 15. The first violation of Wiesel's human rights was when the SS came into his home town and invaded their personal home , and separated them and put all the Jews in a ghetto. The SS took all of their gold and silver and basically anything …show more content…
Then he was told “ You shall receive five times more if you dare tell anyone what you saw.” He got severely punished just because he saw something he was not supposed to. Article four states “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” This happened in the Holocaust many times. Jews were put in concentration camps and literally worked to death, or immediately killed on the spot if they were not “fit enough” to work. That is what happened to Wiesel's mother and sister they were murdered just because they were female and considered “Weak.” However, when he entered the first concentration camp the guard states “You are now in the concentration camp, ahead lies a long road paved with suffering.” That is when everyone realized they were not in a good place and they had no chance of escaping, The Holocaust stripped everyone of their basic human rights , it stripped them of any human qualities they had. It made people turn on each other and then they were not able to think rationally , or make smart decisions. The Holocaust destroyed