Genocide And Native Americans In Elie Wiesel's Night

As mentioned previously, both the Native Americans and the Jews during the two different genocides had suffered from various factors. One of the causes would be known as cruel treatment, such as the removal of the people’s hair. For instance, in Night, Elie Wiesel talks about how when he and his father arrived at the concentration camp, the people who worked in the camps, such as the Kapos, ordered them to take off their clothes and have their hair shaved. The author mentions, “Belt and shoes in hand, I let myself be dragged along to the barbers. Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies. My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father” (Wiesel 35). Wiesel and his father

Especially since numerous people in various tribes had particularly lengthy hair, the European settlers would cut the hair of the indians. In one book, Canada’s First Nations and Cultural Genocide, the author notes that “As the children arrived at the schools, everything they had, such as their clothes or any personal belongings was replaced with school clothes. Not to mention, their hair was cut as well” (Cohen 26). In general, both Jews and Natives had experienced the cruel treatment of having their hair cut, or in some cases shaved. Unfortunately, whether it was a cultural genocide or a mass murder amongst a group of people, one act of brutal behavior towards Natives and Jews was removing their hair from their bodies. To add, shaving or cutting their hair was just one act of savage treatment. Both Jews and Native Americans experienced many deaths and brutal atrocities, especially during an event known as death marches. In the memoir, the author states, “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. But here, whenever we moved from one place to another, it was in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him