Segregation In Elie Wiesel's Night

Within one's life one will encounter a situation in which segregation of individuals or groups will become evident. The feeling of being segregated for something one cannot control is overall demoralising and wrong.Throughout one's time they will learn of the horrible stories which took place during the Holocaust. The Holocaust, a movement to exterminate all Jews, was led under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. Hitler believed that all Jewish people were undesirable. Hitler's ultimate goal was to exterminate the Jewish race. It was not just the mass killing of the Jews, but it was also the power Hitler established over an inferior race. He completely dehumanized their race. In order to determine who was a man of the Jewish faith and not Hitler segregated them in many different ways. Hitler first ordered …show more content…
Immediately Elie describes the days in which the Germans flooded their streets and took control of everything. As they first began raiding the villages, the Germans instituted new rules for every Jew to follow. Some of these rules included, the Jews must remain in their homes at all times, they could not own any valuable such as gold, and the Synagogue was no longer allowed. In Addition to those many rules, the Germans instituted that every Jew must wear a yellow star on their chest at all times. “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star”(Wiesel 11). This star that was placed on the Jews completely segregated them for the rest of the world. The Germans didn't stop there, they moved all Jews to a sectioned off part of town called the Ghettos. Once again this act of segregation demoralised the Jews and allowed the Germans to continue to take over. Therefore as the Germans first started to take over they segregated the Jews by forcing them to wear a yellow star, and thus gave the Advantage to Hitler and his