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    Night Essay

    The Holocaust is the time when the Nazis were committing mass murder of innocent

    Jews and treating them unhumanly. It was pure injustice and completely disgusting that the Nazis

    treated other humans like animals. In Elie Wiesel's book, “Night”, he describes what he and the

    other Jews with him went through during the time of the Holocaust. Jews, and really, all people

    in general, shouldn’t have to suffer at the hands of other humans if they haven’t done anything

    wrong. Nazis during the Holocaust were dehumanizing and making Jews feel degraded through

    public humiliation, making them strip completely, and even forcing them to change their bodies.

    When someone is trying to humiliate another person through public submission, it can

    cause severe detrimental effects on a person's confidence in the things they do in their life. Inside

    the book, Elie noticed the Kapo, who is a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other

    prisoners, having sex with a girl, and Elie began to laugh at them, which angered the Kapo. To

    get revenge on Elie for leaving where he was and finding them together having sex, he publicly

    whipped him and told him, “Listen to me, you son of a swine! said Idek coldly. “So much for

    your curiosity! You will receive five times more if you tell anyone what you saw. Understood.

    (Wiesel 58)”. The force of the whips was enough to knock Elie out, and the Kapo also insulted

    his father by calling him the son of a swine, which this much degrading must hurt and have

    negative psychological effects.

    People stripped of everything they own, including their clothing, make humans almost

    resemble animals, since animals don’t have clothing either. The Jews that remained after the

    seletion were deemed fit to work, so they first needed to get clean, so the Nazis took their
    belongings that the Jews had owned and shaved all of the hair on their bodies. The Nazis told

    them, “Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes…”(Wiesel 35). Being

    naked makes people feel violated and degraded since, despite the fact that no one wanted to have

    their private parts exposed unshielded by clothing, the Nazis still forced them to do it even if it

    was uncomfortable. The Nazis treated the naked Jews like animals without clothing.

    When people are forced to change their own bodies by the will of another person, even if

    they don’t want to, it is very angering. After the Jewish prisoners had arrived inside the

    concentration camp and were deemed fine to work, they were given an identifying number that

    was tattooed on their arms as their new name, further dehumanizing them by even taking away

    their name, which is not something that a person can physically take. After Elie received the

    serial number A-7713, he knew, “From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). The Nazis

    forced Jews to get tattoos just so it’d be easier to recognize them, which is almost like treating

    them as less than humans by not caring about what they changed on their body or their name.

    During the Holocaust, the Nazis humiliated the Jews in public, had them completely

    undress, and even forced them to modify their bodies in an effort to make them feel inferior. All

    of the Jews during the Holocaust were forced to endure and adapt to the worst of conditions in

    order to survive. People all around the world have to learn from the Holocaust to make sure

    nothing like it may ever happen again. In the end, all the Jews who survived were liberated, and

    since they fought to stay alive, even though it took a while, they might finally believe and thank

    God for helping them get through it.

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