How could someone kill or torture so many people for being a certain race? To start with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines the 30 rights every person is given and they can not be taken away. These rights are not obeyed during the holocaust. Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor is one of many jews that is experiencing the dehumanization by the Germans.
In the novel Night, article 18 of the UDHR is not being followed during the Holocaust. This article expresses that everyone has the right to believe in what they want to believe in, including religion. Wiesel states, “I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy”(68). The way the Germans are treating Elie makes him believe that God is no longer by his side and that faith is no longer helping him. Once more, Wiesel expresses how the Germans are dehumanizing the Jews is by stating, “I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but death itself, with death that he had already chosen”(105). The concentration camps have made Elie believe that death is undeniable and that he no longer can fight to stay alive.
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Article 5 states that no one has the right to hurt or torture a person. The Jews in the concentration camps are being tortured. Wiesel states, “ And he began beating him with an iron bar. At first my father simply doubled over under the blows but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning”(54). The Germans are beating and torturing the Jews but not only are they hurting that person, they are also mentally hurting everyone else by making them watch. Once again Wiesel states, “I didn't move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head”(111). While the Jews are in the concentration camps, they must obey the Germans even while they are being