One’s moral values could be another’s worst nightmare. The Nazis didn’t think that the Jews were worthy of living and viewed them as not human. Therefore they didn’t deserve to be treated as humans. There were many example of how The Nazi’s morals alienated the Jews. The Jew’s experience alienation in the ghettos, during transportation and especially in the concentration camps. The ghettos were an example of alienation. Eliezer’s family were placed in the ghettos. They were put in ghettos because the Nazis thought that the Jews were not worthy enough to live in a regular neighborhood. Barbed wire surrounded the ghettos. Barbed wire is used for animals. The fact that barbed wire was used in the ghetto makes us realize the Nazis did not view these people as humans. The Jews were encage and treated as if they were nothing but vermin. Even though this wasn’t normal, to the Jews it was becoming normal. Eliezer said “Little by little life …show more content…
Eliezer’s family, like many other Jewish families, were transported to camps, but they were not transported in a civilized way. They were stuffed in cattle cars, about eighty people per car. These people were treated as if they were cattle. There was not much room. It was hard to sit, and you definitely couldn’t lay down. It didn’t matter that they were standing in their own waste, or that they were losing their minds, such as Mrs. Schächter did. Nothing mattered because to the Nazis, the Jews were nothing but a waste of space. No matter how packed it was in the cattle cars, the Nazis wanted to assure that no one would escape and everyone would suffer. “They checked the bars on the windows to make sure they would not come loose” (22). Jews were treated like filth. Eliezer’s family, like the other Jewish families, weren’t even viewed as people at this point. Eliezer’s family endure a horrific journey, but sadly, the worst was yet to