Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The author of Night, a novel documenting the horrible and inhumane events of the holocaust, Elie Wiesel expresses his experiences and observations in which he and his fellow Jews were dehumanized during Hitler's rule in the second world war. Wiesel's first experience of dehumanization, yet subtle to the community at the time was moving from their homes leaving belongings to a designated area called a ghetto, here they had to wait for their deportation, counted to make sure everyone was accounted for and separated from the rest of the world left in the dark to what was to come. The second was after being transferred to a concentration camp,where they were stripped of their human identity and reduced them to mere bodies that were forced to work