Dehumanization In Night

Experiences they'll never forget. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel expresses his experience in the horrific times of the Holocaust. This book is a novel on how Elie Weisel was a Holocaust survivor who experienced and saw events from concentration camps located throughout Germany. If Weisel didn’t write and construct this novel, then new generations couldn’t learn from and appreciate some of the Holocaust survivors. Even though there are other sources where you can find stories from Holocaust survivors, the book Night was very detailed and well explained his experience that others didn’t have. Wiesel explains how we can learn from our mistakes, and we have to remember everyone that suffered and disregard revenge. Revenge took action around the

They started to only focus on themselves by fighting their loved ones for food and hurting others for money. Dehumanization really struck throughout the Holocaust, from when the SS officers started tattooing numbers and letters on the Jews used as identification methods, this is very similar to branding, which is a process performed on cows. The Jews weren’t being treated like humans by the SS officers, which just added to the dehumanization process. Then soon after, the Jews started hurting each other and turning on each other to fend for themselves as if they were animals in the wild. Normally humans would look for some sort of revenge in times like this, but like Elie said, they had no thought of revenge when they were free, instead they chose to let the moment rest and stay as a time of remembrance for future generations. Surprisingly, there were a reasonable number of other Holocaust survivors that were willing to share the stories on many different platforms. After viewing many different sites with testimonies from a variety of Holocaust survivors, one stuck out to me, especially Susan