Night Elie Wiesel Sparknotes

Everywhere in the world, some people are treated terribly. They are pushed down by others because they are not liked by anyone. In a well known case that took place in 1941, there was a huge number of Jewish people that were tortured by Germans. Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir about his experience in the Holocaust. Jews were the main target of the Nazi genocide. The Schutzstaffel, also referred to as the SS officers, are known as an organization under Hitler and the Nazi party. These people captured Jews and forced them into hard labor, while only having a small ration of soup and bread. The SS officers tattooed the Jews like cattle with a serial number. Wiesel also reveals how the prisoners were treated. They were forced to separate into groups

The SS officers tattoo each prisoner so they know how many people there are, and die. The Jews are labeled as cattle. The farmers put tags on their animals to manage them in groups and to keep records of them. The SS officers look at the Jews as animals. They are doing things similar to farmers, and the officers are making sure that they know they are being looked after like animals. Being labeled as something other than his name breaks down his humanity because he is now being treated like an animal. As soon as the Red Army comes closer to Wiesel’s current camp, Buna, the SS officers pack everything up and force the prisoners to march. When the officers made them increase their pace, one of them shouted, “‘Faster, you filthy dogs!’ We were no longer marching. We were running. Like automatons”(85). The SS officers forced the prisoners to run for more than ten hours. They start at six o’clock in the evening and finally stop when the sun rises. No human will ever run for more than ten hours in the freezing cold. The prisoners are being treated like sheep. Farmers have dogs that round up sheep, and they keep them in order. The prisoners are forced to run in a group, and if one person steps out of line, they will be