In the world today everyone believes in treating each other as equal as possible, but the
memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays a time where this was not the case. The true power of
dehumanization is displayed throughout the book. The story follows Elie’s journey as a Jew
during the Holocaust, from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania up to his liberation from a
concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Although Elie faced some of the worst the world
has to offer; starvation, loneliness, and losing his family, perhaps what had the strongest impact
on his life was the dehumanization he endured from the Germans. Contrary to many beliefs of
dehumanization only having a minor impact on an individual, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the truth …show more content…
Throughout the Holocaust,
the prisoners faced immense starvation, thirst, and lack of medical treatment. The insufficiency
of human essentials forced a majority of the Jews into a state of complete desperation.
IN THE WAGON where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling
themselves against each other trampling, tearing, at and mauling each other. Beasts
vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails (Wiesel 101).
Elie compared men to beasts and how beasts are brutal monsters that will unhesitantly kill one
another to survive. The moment that a single piece of bread fell to the floor a war began, but
instead of two sides the war was every man for himself. They had no care in the world for the
other men around them and even sacrificed their own bodies and in some cases their own lives
for something as small as a piece of bread. The cause was none other than the dehumanization
the Hitler Party expressed on the Jews. The Nazis made them feel like animals and sometimes
even objects, which made the Jewish people treat each other in the same way. Perhaps …show more content…
Where is God’s mercy? Where’s God? How
can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy? (Wiesel 76)
Akiba loses his faith in God while simultaneously deciding to give up on life.The
dehumanization that Akiba experienced while in the camp embedded the ideal that he was no
more than a creature of flesh and bone. Once he came to this realization the other prisoners
realized the same. Akiba was not alone when it came to being puzzled with God’s mysterious
ways. Many of the Jews believed that it was God’s fault that they were in the situation they were
in. When Akiba spoke about suffering hell in his soul and flesh, he felt that all his beliefs were
contradicted by the Germans. He began to lose faith in God because of what the SS repetitively
forced into his mind, including the fact that God was evil because he was simply watching them
suffer and taking no action to be their savior. The forceful acts of dehumanization the Jewish
were treated with altered their views on even God. Therefore if the Germans did not dehumanize
the Jews as firmly as they did, perhaps not as many of the them would have lost faith in their
religion in a time of such great
memoir Night by Elie Wiesel portrays a time where this was not the case. The true power of
dehumanization is displayed throughout the book. The story follows Elie’s journey as a Jew
during the Holocaust, from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania up to his liberation from a
concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Although Elie faced some of the worst the world
has to offer; starvation, loneliness, and losing his family, perhaps what had the strongest impact
on his life was the dehumanization he endured from the Germans. Contrary to many beliefs of
dehumanization only having a minor impact on an individual, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the truth …show more content…
Throughout the Holocaust,
the prisoners faced immense starvation, thirst, and lack of medical treatment. The insufficiency
of human essentials forced a majority of the Jews into a state of complete desperation.
IN THE WAGON where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling
themselves against each other trampling, tearing, at and mauling each other. Beasts
vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails (Wiesel 101).
Elie compared men to beasts and how beasts are brutal monsters that will unhesitantly kill one
another to survive. The moment that a single piece of bread fell to the floor a war began, but
instead of two sides the war was every man for himself. They had no care in the world for the
other men around them and even sacrificed their own bodies and in some cases their own lives
for something as small as a piece of bread. The cause was none other than the dehumanization
the Hitler Party expressed on the Jews. The Nazis made them feel like animals and sometimes
even objects, which made the Jewish people treat each other in the same way. Perhaps …show more content…
Where is God’s mercy? Where’s God? How
can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy? (Wiesel 76)
Akiba loses his faith in God while simultaneously deciding to give up on life.The
dehumanization that Akiba experienced while in the camp embedded the ideal that he was no
more than a creature of flesh and bone. Once he came to this realization the other prisoners
realized the same. Akiba was not alone when it came to being puzzled with God’s mysterious
ways. Many of the Jews believed that it was God’s fault that they were in the situation they were
in. When Akiba spoke about suffering hell in his soul and flesh, he felt that all his beliefs were
contradicted by the Germans. He began to lose faith in God because of what the SS repetitively
forced into his mind, including the fact that God was evil because he was simply watching them
suffer and taking no action to be their savior. The forceful acts of dehumanization the Jewish
were treated with altered their views on even God. Therefore if the Germans did not dehumanize
the Jews as firmly as they did, perhaps not as many of the them would have lost faith in their
religion in a time of such great