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Dehumanization During The Holocaust By Elie Weisel

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Imagine if one day you suddenly had everything stripped from you: all of your possessions, passions, family, and even basic things like your clothes, hair, the right to get medical attention, or basic hygiene. This is the hard reality of what happened to millions of people during the Holocaust in a process of genocide called dehumanization, a manipulative tactic used in genocides. In this essay, I'm going to be focusing on one specific story from Elie Weisel. During the beginning stages of the Holocaust, Elie and his family were herded into small ghettos, taken out of their homes, and only allowed to bring a small bag of belongings. They were forced to live in horrible conditions, separated from any non-Jews. These ghettos were used as a control tactic, already putting dehumanization into place by segregating and exploiting Jewish inhabitants as part of the systematic dehumanization orchestrated by the Nazis. Upon their arrival, they are separated from their mother and sister and put into different lines, herded like animals, like they are less than them. They keep …show more content…

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