During Night, dehumanization is one of the largest factor’s to the everyday lives of the Nazi’s prisoners. When a prisoner dies for one more bite of soup, it’s shows us that dehumanization make’s people act in a way they wouldn’t have prior to being dehumanization. Upon arriving at the concentration camp all prisoners are quickly stripped of everything that makes them human, their name, their possessions, their companionship and their identity. ‘The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind’ (pg29) and when they are told to ‘Strip’ (pg35), shows how their possession’s where taken from them, this is the beginning of their dehumanization. The reader sees how they are robbed of companionship when Eli writes ‘We were alone’, and how they are further stripped of their humanity when they are forced to have their hair cut, the final thing that strips them of their humanity is when their names are taken away and they are given tattoo’s to be identified by, ‘A-7713’ (pg42), from then on they had ‘no other name’ (pg42).
Everyone had seemed worried and scared. After days of exhaustion and starvation they had arrived at Auschwitz, where the men and women had been separated. The next camp that they arrived at was Buna where they were forced to work. The only thing that the prisoners had to eat was soup and bread, therefore many died. Prisoners were also forced to watch others get hanged.
Debbie Budgen Response to Rachmil Bryks’ “A Cupboard in the Ghetto” English Literature 108 October 5, 2013 We all face conflict in our lives and deal with it differently. In the story, “A Cupboard in the Ghetto”, by Rachmil Bryks, the reader is introduced to the main character, Hershel Zeif. Zeif is a young newlywed who finds himself living with his wife, Henye, in one of the ghettos which became home to many Jews during WWII. Zeif is a young man who appears incredibly naïve as to the political climate of the time, believing the ghetto is a temporary dwelling for him and his wife. During his time in the ghetto, Zeif experiences a personal transformation in which his sense of self is stripped, like his cupboard which symbolizes his ability to take care of his wife and symbolizes his humanity which is stripped by the Nazis; yet able to hold on to a sense of his own dignity at the same time.
He was a strong believer in Judaism, and even studied mysticism and the texts of their sacred scriptures. However, once the Nazis came into his hometown of Sighet, all the Jews of his town were forced into cattle cars and taken to Auschwitz and Birkenau. There, his family was torn apart, leaving him with his father, and his sisters with his mother. Once they were split, he began to slowly lose his innocence. “Yet that was the moment I left my mother… In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right… I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever…My hand tightened its grip on my father.
In Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec, there are many discriminative, stereotypical and prejudice events that take place throughout the book. The book is actually memoirs written by the author about how during World War II Nazis would raid villages to imprison and/or kill Jews and show what the Jews had to do to survive. The Nazis hated the Jews; they had unfavorable opinions about them, and were taught to treat them unfairly. They stereotyped the Jews as if all of them were bad and deserved to be punished. An event takes a big toll on the main character (Tec); when the Nazis separated her family.
Elie, his father, his sister and his mother were innocently arrested. Elie and his family to the concentration camp they arrive to a scene of depression it turned out to a crematorium or dead room for the prisoners and inmates. All they smell is the stench of burning bodies and flesh. Elie is unwontedly forced and separated way from his mother and sister, it is hard to witness but at least he still has his dad. In the all men’s camp Elie is repetitively tortured for sticking up and or fending for his father.
Night, by Elie Wiesel, is an autobiographical book about the survival of a young Jew that is living in the times of the horrifying Holocaust. The characters face terrifying accounts that takes place at the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of his battle for survival and the utmost degradation of the human race. What he sees and experiences as a young boy shapes his outlook on the world entirely. The story is powerful and affecting through the negligence of the Nazis.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrifying story of the Holocaust through Wiesels eyes. In 1944 Elie and his family were taken from their home Auschwitz. Night is the terrifying story of his memories of the death his family, the loss of his innocence and faith in God. Based on what I read in Night, things of value will always change. The valuable things that Elie cherished in the life before the Holocaust were very different, than those after and during his time in the camps.
Night Have you ever felt alone, lost faith, no more hope in staying alive any more? Well Elie and his father did while in a Jewish concentration Camps for a whole year, going from one camp to another. This event of the Holocaust didn’t just change everyone on who was taken from the homes and put into a ghetto. But it had a big effect on Elie’s belief in God, hope, and wondering whether or not he will be able to survive living in the concentration camps. Elie had a simple, normal child’s life before he was sent to a concentration camp.
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.