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Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Paul Desilva Ms. Ramirez English 9H, pr. 3 17 May, 2024 Research Paper. Identity The Holocaust and the events surrounding it had a devastating impact on the Jewish people and their religion. The actions of the Nazis resulted in the dehumanization and torture of over 2,000,000 people. The act of dehumanization can be defined as taking away the rights and qualities that make a human a human. A story that perfectly describes and encapsulates the events that happened during the Holocaust is a memoir by Elie Weisel, titled “Night.” This memoir portrays a first-hand account of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and the effects it had on the Jewish people and their religion. In Elie Weisel’s memoir, “Night,” dehumanization was caused by the condition …show more content…

All of the prisoners were also subject to beatings and attacks from guards. Elie Wiesel states in “Night,” “The Gypsy stared at him for a long time, from head to toe. As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Then, after waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.” Elizer’s father is beaten because he asked to use the bathroom. Humans were stripped of their rights to use a bathroom and were forced to use the dirty outside like dogs. Prisoners were also dehumanized by the conditions of the camps. The labor that the Jewish people endured in the concentration camps was brutal and exhausting. The cruelty of the officers there was intense. Prisoners were forced to carry 25 kilogram boxes of goods to their camps from the trains on which they came. Wells, HEW. One of the leading causes besides the gas chambers was exhaustion and malnutrition. A combination of hard labor and no food or drink for a long period of time resulted in a lot of lost lives. There was minimal food provided. Only soup and a little bit of water was given to the prisoners and some of the time the

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During the book Night Idek explodes and started to beat Elie's father, “And he began beating him with an iron bar”(Wiesel 54). This scene shows how Jews and other prisoners were treated on a daily basis. The Germans or Kapo would take their anger out on the Jews and prisoners in concentration for just doing the little things wrong. During the train ride, Mrs. Shachter kept repeating the word fire until the others had enough, “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal”(Wiesel 26). This scene shows how horrific ways people were beaten, even women were beaten.

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We receive more blows than food. The work was crushing on me. And three days after he left we forgot to say "Kaddish"(Wiesel 77) And so they were constantly thinking about how they could find some basic sustenance needed for life itself. The prisoners are further brutalized by the officers abusing them, which causes them physical and mental pain as well as making them worthless in the eyes of Nazis who look at them like objects.

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