The Theme Of Human Rights In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Can you imagine people with machine guns forcing you into cattle cars with 79 other people, then being given very little food and water? That is what Elie Wiesel went through in his memoir Night. Would you like someone to ignore what is happing to you? That is what the German citizens where doing in 1938-1942. Even though the Germans say did not violate human rights, the Germans violated human rights because the Germans imprisoned people against their will in concentration camps and the Germans forced people to live in terrible conditions. It was shown in Night that the Nazis violated the right that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, were forced to approach …show more content…
“Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium—the choice is yours." (Night page #38-39) When the Nazis gave the people the choice of work or death they became slaves. A slave is classified as a person who you control that has no choice about what they do, that makes the people that the Nazis are keeping in concentration camps slaves. “They pointed their fingers, the way one might choose cattle, or merchandise.” (Night page #49) When the Nazis started picking people out as if they here merchandise it was because they were merchandise to the Nazis. There are a lot more was that the Nazis violated peoples’ human rights.
Even though the Germans say did not violate human rights, the Germans violated human rights because the Germans imprisoned people against their will in concentration camps and the Germans forced people to live in terrible conditions. Now that you have seen just several ways the Nazis violated peoples’ human rights, do you think the Nazis violated peoples’ human rights? Do you think there is anything that people can so to prevent that from happing

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