In the story, the Nazis treat the Jews in a very inhumane way. The Holocaust was a very traumatic event that made Jews suffer in concentration camps that were located all over Europe. The Holocaust lasted 4 years from 1941 to 1945 and in those 4 years over 6 million Jews were killed. During the war, the Nazis sought to eliminate the entire Jewish population as well as some other groups of people. Night expresses the subject of dignity in the face of inhuman cruelty by making the Jews run, barely feeding them and giving them nothing for clothes and using them for entertainment in a very cruel and inhumane way. During the story night, the Nazis made the Jews run from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz in the middle of the winter for 42 miles. During this, a lot of Jews died because of the harsh weather conditions. “My head was spinning: you’re too thin, you’re weak, you’re too thin, you’re good for the furnace.” (Ellie 79)When Everyone was running, if the Jews slowed down or fell down they would be shot on the …show more content…
Women to the right!”(38)Ellie and his dad had separated from his mother and sister, little did he know that that was the last time he would ever see them again. The SS ordered the men to get into a line and they would select their “strong” men to go to work. Because of this, Ellie and her father had to lie about their age. When they got to their barracks, everyone had to strip naked. “New suits and old, torn coats, rags.”(44) The Nazis gave the Jews barely anything when they arrived. Ellie and the others would have to wear their pajamas for the rest of the Holocaust. “There was no floor,” he said. A roof and four walls. Our feet sank into mud.”(46) The Nazis had built these barracks with scraps, and they weren't insulated. There would be 500 Jews assigned to each barracks and 5-6 per bunk. When anyone got sick, that sickness would spread like crazy because they were so jammed packed in the