Shrivats Pandey Mr.Ryder English May 9, 2024. Dehumanization of Elie in Night The Holocaust was a systemic and state-sponsored killing of 11 million people, of which 6 million consisted of Jews. Dehumanization is the most painful process that one can face, which impacts one drastically in negative ways. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night recollects the horrors Wiesel experienced living as a Jewish boy fighting life or death to survive during the Holocaust. Wiesel goes back in time to portray his horrific experiences as a young Jewish boy located in the town of Sighet, where he is deeply immersed in the religious realm of Jews and is intrigued by it. Soon after, Elie and his whole family are deported to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. Throughout the time he spent in Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald, he …show more content…
He also has to see terrible things happening in front of him. A young 15-year-old has no choice but to look at people being killed right in front of his eyes, which no teenager should be going through, to which he quickly realizes that there was “something being burned”. A truck drew close and unloaded its load: small children. Babies! I love the sand! Yes, [Elie] did see this with [his] own eyes”(Wiesel 32). Upon Elie’s short arrival at Auschwitz, he has already witnessed truckloads of children being burnt right in front of him. The horrific acts he had just seen profoundly impact Elise as he slowly descends into a state of shock. Elie feels the cruelty of the Nazis when he experiences this savage act right in front of him as the babies are being burned in a pit. Elie loses his innocence, from feeling uncertain to being numb due to the fact he’s seen so much, which strikes him mentally as he is helpless and hopeless. He quickly realized how cruel people can be, especially to the Jewish community at the