Who Is Elie Wiesel Dehumanized In Night

There is no action any man, woman, or child can commit to deserve to have the most important, yet most basic thing taken away from them: their identity as a human being. Even though it is recognized as morally corrupt, it still happens today as an extremely unjustified form of punishment, more often than not against a group of victimized people who did nothing wrong. This holds true in one of the most atrocious events in history, the Holocaust, where a religion as a whole was put on trial and punished for nothing but the bigotry and hatred of those in the NAZI party. In Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir about a teenager in the Holocaust, Elie and his fellow Jews were dehumanized by being assigned numbers, being continuously beaten, and having lower living standards than that of normal people. When Elie went to Auschwitz, a Jewish concentration camp, they tattooed the number, “A-7713. From then on, [he] had no other name” (Wiesel 42). Names are given at birth and are crucial aspects of one’s identity; it is absorbed into the personality itself. For the Germans to take this away from the Jewish people meant that they viewed them as less than people, and no more than the numbers as their arms. Their …show more content…
If the community wasn’t being chastised for their religion, they would most likely be well taken care of by soldiers, or by anybody, and would be considered guests in the establishment. If they were any other type of human being, they would have been treated as such, but to their luck, they were not. They were consistently beaten by the guards, something unnecessary in the situation as they were not disrespecting or resisting authority, and given small rations of bread and coffee. Consequently, many victims suffered from malnutrition and died from starvation or because of their weakness. This treatment often left people feeling as if they were less than