Nelson Mandela once said, “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” This quote connects with Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, which narrates how human rights were taken away from Jews, leading to traumatic experiences during the Holocaust. During World War II, Adolf Hiter, a German politician rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, and is also responsible for causing the Holocaust to happen, which is the genocide of European Jews. The Nazis ordered thousands of Jews to different concentration camps, where they forced labor, killed, and experimented with ethics. Nazi concentration camps were not a good place to be, because there were constant worries about death. It is estimated that about 6 million Jews died …show more content…
This quote depicts a haunting scene where victims of the Holocaust are forced to march past the bodies of two men who have died. Wiesel explains that their tongues were hanging, and the child was struggling to breathe, which shows how brutal the Nazis treated the prisoners. During Wiesel’s difficult times at Nazi concentration camps, nobody would acknowledge the prisoners, such as Wiesel’s father who had been getting weaker each day while staying at the camps. Towards the end of the novel, Wiesel’s father explains that they could not receive any food. “They didn’t give us anything.They said that we were sick, that we would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food. I can’t go on.” (Wiesel 107). This quote describes a heartbreaking moment when the prisoners were denied food and that they were sick and would die soon. The quote highlights the desperation and despair felt by Wiesel’s father, who feels no hope. Additionally, Wiesel explains the time when the Blockalteste, leader of a barrack, refused to care for his father. “The doctor won’t do anything for him.The doctor cannot do anything more for him and neither can you,” (Wiesel