Human Rights In Night By Elie Wiesel

Humanity is Diminishing “Ding!” If there were a counter for the multitudes of human rights violated on a quotidian basis, “Ding” would be what you would hear every day. What are human rights? Human rights are unofficial proclamations for the entire human race. The human rights are stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the UDHR consists of unofficial privileges for humans. Unfortunately, these sacred rights have been disrupted on multiple occasions such as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the killing of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Several confirmations about the infringement of human rights have been expressed in the Holocaust based novel Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is the life, sacrifices, difficulties and torture Elie faced throughout the Holocaust. The novel reveals numerous ruptures of human rights. An exiguous amount of frequent negligence of human rights from the UDHR in the novel Night are: Article 2 freedom from discrimination, Article 3 right to life, liberty and personal security, and Article 26 right to education. The novel Night is the life of the author Elie Wiesel throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a fifteen year old boy when the Hungarian police forced him and countless other Jewish families

Separating a child from education is unforgivable. There is also an article in the UDHR regarding education, Article 26: Right to education. In the novel, the children who should have been getting their education were imposed to work inside the camps. According to the novel, “We were given new clothing and settled in two tents. We were to wait there until we could be incorporated into work.” Also from the novel, “The young French girl was a forced labor inmate.” Children were annexed from education and imposed into labor inside the camp walls. These protocols rupture Article 26: Right to education, of the