Night By Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Analysis

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Adolf Hitler left a ruinous impression on Jewish history. With over 40,000 concentration camps and the slaughter of over six million Jews, he traumatized their culture. Hitler used tactics that materially and psychologically exterminated the Jews. During the Holocaust, all Jews were dehumanized and was revealed in the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel and his family were victims of the holocaust. Wiesel along with his family arrive at Auschwitz. They are stripped, shaved, disinfected, and put into a selection. During this Wiesel is separated from his mother and sister and witnesses infants being thrown into fire. Wiesel and his father Shomo are then transferred to Buna a work camp. Wiesel is assigned to work in an electrical-fittings factory where he must sort and count electrical parts. Even though the unit Wiesel was assigned to was considered a good unit, him and his fellow Jews were considered as slaves.
During Wiesel time in Buna he was countless dehumanized. To being stripped of his name and tattooed A-7713 to being barely fed. While in Buna Wiesel is subjected to several beating and watching a child hung. Even Wiesel’s father explains that they are in jeopardy …show more content…
While he is in the clinic, the Nazis must abandon the camp due to the Russians advancing and them starting to liberate Buna. They then order the Jews to a death march in the midst of a snowstorm. They travel over fifty miles to Gleiwitz a concentration camp. Reaching their destination they then board a cattle car to Buchenwald. Later In Buchenwald, Shlomo falls deathly ill. He can not move and wishes only to rest. While Shlomo is bedridden, the surrounding Jews steal food and beat him. Then during the SS patrol, Shlomo cries for water and is hit with a truncheon for him to shut up. The next morning Wiesel finds that his father was sent to the crematory and shamefully admits that he felt

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