Holocaust victims are physically dehumanized everyday while in the concentration camps, however Elie Wiesel was not affected by this treatment. To begin with many prisoners go “Days without food or water” (Wiesel 95). Prisoners are not even given rations while taking long journeys but when they are given rations it is only a piece of bread and a cup of water. The ration is enough to keep them alive but not enough to nurture them. Along with that “…began to devour it. He didn’t get far. Two had been watching him. They jumped him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies…” (Wiesel 101-102). The starvation that the prisoners are put through by the SS officers is so unsatisfactory that when one person obtains food other
