Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Men to the left, women to the right.” Elie was only 14 years old when these words began to haunt him. Elie Wiesel was a jewish boy who was sent to the Nazi concentration camp; Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a massive prison that was used by the Nazis to torture millions of people; these people were deemed unworthy of being part of the master race, and they were mainly jews. He survived Auschwitz and he went on to tell his heart wrenching story in the memoir entitled Night. Night vividly describes the monstrous lengths the nazis went through to dehumanize the jewish people. Dehumanization was the largest problem faced during the holocaust; there are many ways the Nazis achieved dehumanization of the jewish people. In the very start of night we