Have you ever wondered what a real life nightmare would be like? Elie Wiesel shares his nightmare at Auschwitz with the readers in his book, “Night”. Wiesel the survivor and author of “Night” lived on to tell his tale and spread awareness about the horrors of the holocaust. Throughout the nevalla the reader can see that power can strangely impact the identity and freedom of others, and what the jews had to do for survival. Hitlersattempt of destruction upon the jews during WWll led to mass scale loss of identity within the jewish religion during and after the war. They’re many examples of the loss of identity upon the jews, for insist Wiesel states the jews were stripped of their human identities as soon as they got to the camp. The jews were called creatures, dogs and many dehumanizing names. Another example Wiesel gave us was when the jews were all lined up and given numbers as their new names, Wiesel was given A-7713 and gave us a quote “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name”. Wiesel lost a huge part of his identity that day like many other jews in the camps when the Nazis stripped their names away. The jews lost many things during WWll similar to …show more content…
One of Wiesel's first encounters at Auschwitz was getting off the train and being separated from his mother and sisters which he would never see again. The Nazies stripped the families apart seperating the women, elderly and kids from then men, then they were sent to the showers to be killed. Another example of loss of freedom is the Jews being in the camps to start with, the jews had no free will and were killed if they didn't do as they were told. Wiesel lost a lot in his childhood but he also had to struggle to stay alive and survival was a huge part of his