Jews During The Holocaust During the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler put six death camps into operation; this was the reason for the 11 deaths of 11 million Jews and minorities in 1933. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, readers follow Elie and his family as they are taken from their home and put into the death camp of Auschwitz. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the prisoners in the death camp were deprived of their basic needs while they were there. Prisoners were at risk of death all the time. The prisoners were forced to march 42 miles in the freezing cold after evacuating Buna, one of the Nazi concentration camps. During the march, they are given no slack. Elie described: “Anyone who slows down risks being trampled to death by the other …show more content…
The prisoners had their identities taken away. The prisoners are stripped and given new clothes, often ones that don't fit them, and are tattooed with an identifying number. For Eliezer, his number, A-7713, became his new name. The guards refer to him and the others by their numbers and remove their identities. The three veteran prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on their left arms” (Weisel 42). This tells us that the prisoners had their identity taken away from them because the guards tattooed them with numbers, and that became their new name. The prisoners were taken from their families. Men to the left – a snare! Women to the right!” “Yet that was the moment when I left my mother” (Wiesel 29). “Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, and without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.” Eliezer and his father remain together, separated from Eliezer’s mother and younger sister, whom he never sees