During the Holocaust, Jews were continuously stripped away from who they were, treated terribly, and were dying due to the horrific conditions that they were put in. One writer, Elie Wiesel, wrote a book called Night. This book proves exactly the point, from someone who survived the Holocaust. He and his family were Jews, sent to “concentration camps”. But after a while, he was separated from his family but his dad. Slowly throughout the book, Elie loses himself, his identity, and survives alone with nothing left of him. Although the Holocaust did do these things to Elie, he and the Jews were also all dehumanized through those terrible acts of hate. All was good in the beginning, the Jews were happy, even when the Germans settled in. But they were there for a terrible cause because Elie eventually says, “Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately …show more content…
Treating them less than humans and more like animals. After the loads of Jews arrived at the concentration camps, they were then stripped of all that made them who they were. “Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies”(Wiesel 35). The Germans were now stealing their identities, Elie and others were dehumanized. Hitler was the cause of it. Elie was stolen from what made him, appearance wise that is. At this time he was with his family, but not long after he would be separated from his sisters and mother. Not his father, but his father. Everyday these people were forced into labor, later, most likely murdered by gas, guns, rope, and worse of all, fire. These people were pushed beyond their limits. Elie reads a sign that states “Work makes you free” (Wiesel 40). Work only makes them free because the Jews were literally worked to death. Later on, killing his father from sickness and little food. The Germans would kill anyone too weak, or anyone that didn't