The realization that humans can make decisions based on certain traits in common groups and condemn them to brutal experiments, hard labor, or inhumane deaths is devastating and difficult to understand. These circumstances did occur in Germany from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. The Nazi Party, under Hitler, decides groups like Romanis, Communists, Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses does not deserve Human Rights. The harsh actions of the Nazi Party are known as the Holocaust. The book Night by Elie Wiesel, is a written memoir describing his first account of being one of the many select groups in the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel’s first account illustrates that Human Rights are necessary to keep people from being
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Throughout the twelve years of the Holocaust, millions died. From the time of Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz, he is able to see”in front of [him], those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh” (Wiesel 28). The flames and smell is from the crematorium where select victims’ bodies were to burn to ashes. The selection of who was to burn is usually not on the basis of actions or wrongdoings. Elie is witnessing “... children thrown into flames” (Wiesel 32). Children are being thrown into these ditches by the truckloads. A child can not do anything drastic enough to deserve to burn alive.Elie continues with the description of, “A little farther on, there was another, larger pit for adults” (Wiesel 32). Nazis are deciding who lives and who dies emotionlessly with every decision. An officer using a baton to point to the right or the left usually makes this decision of life or death in Elie’s case (31). It is a slaughterhouse with the victims as the animals going through the process of judgement to see if they are ready for death or not quite yet. The ruthless selection upon arrival is not the only one. In the other selection “an SS would examine [them]. Whenever he found someone extremely frail… he would write down his number: good for the crematorium” (Wiesel 70). The Nazis only allow them to live if they are being seen as useful. The victims are not humans …show more content…
Throughout Night, the human rights:the right to your own things, the right to marriage and family, and the right to life, are being denied. Victims of the concentration camps have their own belongings stripped from them along with their identification, besides a number tattooed on their arm. Families are separated, in most cases, for their entire lives. the Holocaust victims are killed left and right within the concentration camps. The problem being that they did not have human rights numbers seventeen, sixteen, and three. Without human rights like those and many more, other humans can make decisions based on certain traits and condemn them to brutal experiments, hard labor, or inhumane deaths like the Nazis did from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. The few differences from then to now will be that it will not be called Holocaust and will not necessarily last only twelve
Throughout the twelve years of the Holocaust, millions died. From the time of Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz, he is able to see”in front of [him], those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh” (Wiesel 28). The flames and smell is from the crematorium where select victims’ bodies were to burn to ashes. The selection of who was to burn is usually not on the basis of actions or wrongdoings. Elie is witnessing “... children thrown into flames” (Wiesel 32). Children are being thrown into these ditches by the truckloads. A child can not do anything drastic enough to deserve to burn alive.Elie continues with the description of, “A little farther on, there was another, larger pit for adults” (Wiesel 32). Nazis are deciding who lives and who dies emotionlessly with every decision. An officer using a baton to point to the right or the left usually makes this decision of life or death in Elie’s case (31). It is a slaughterhouse with the victims as the animals going through the process of judgement to see if they are ready for death or not quite yet. The ruthless selection upon arrival is not the only one. In the other selection “an SS would examine [them]. Whenever he found someone extremely frail… he would write down his number: good for the crematorium” (Wiesel 70). The Nazis only allow them to live if they are being seen as useful. The victims are not humans …show more content…
Throughout Night, the human rights:the right to your own things, the right to marriage and family, and the right to life, are being denied. Victims of the concentration camps have their own belongings stripped from them along with their identification, besides a number tattooed on their arm. Families are separated, in most cases, for their entire lives. the Holocaust victims are killed left and right within the concentration camps. The problem being that they did not have human rights numbers seventeen, sixteen, and three. Without human rights like those and many more, other humans can make decisions based on certain traits and condemn them to brutal experiments, hard labor, or inhumane deaths like the Nazis did from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. The few differences from then to now will be that it will not be called Holocaust and will not necessarily last only twelve