...Dehumanization is what the Nazis used to make Jews less human and more of a thing. In the story night, this happened to Elie's, his father, and the other Jews with them. People treat most animals better than the way the Nazis treated the Jews. They treated them like they had no soul. They didn’t even take a minute to think if roles were reversed because they didn’t care what was happening to them. This completely changed how they acted. Dehumanization changed the way the Jews acted during the Holocaust. It even changed Elie and his father. They were treated like slaves and did whatever they were told to. Elie’s father had to go to the bathroom. He went to ask a Gypsy if he could go to the bathroom and if he knew where the toilets were located. He was very polite to the Gypsy. In the story, it says, “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 actually a creature with flesh and bone, a human being with a body and belly.” Elie didn’t do anything. He knew that and was confused why he didn’t. He thought, “Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminals flesh.” Auschwitz had changed all the people that were there a lot. These people who work in Auschwitz treated the Jews like they...
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...The Holocaust was a genocide that resulted in deaths of millions of innocent people. The corpses were mostly from the murders of Jews across Europe in Nazi-ruled territory but it also included other groups like gypsies, disabled people and Jehovah's Witnesses. Nazis dehumanized Jews by sending them to camps and ghettos and forcing them in harsh and inhumane conditions. They were considered subhuman and millions died due to illness, disease, starvation and exhaustion. They were also exterminated by several methods, such as mass shooting, gassing trucks, and gas chambers. It was usually after they were killed in gas chambers that the Jew’s corpses would be used by the Nazis. Nazis tried to deny the genocide by attempting to destroy the evidence. Crematoriums and warehouses were destroyed and prisoners were forced on a death march to other camps. However, the Allies still discovered the camps, including pounds of human hair and the products that Jews were made into....
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...The Holocaust: Effects of Dehumanization in Art Spiegelman’s Maus War broke out in Europe in September of 1939. Everything went downhill from then, Germans began to take over and minorities such as Jews were quickly forced to go to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate camps not far from one another so that communication could be kept between them. These three camps included: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau and Auschwitz III–Monowitz. Auschwitz I was classified as the base camp where prisoners mainly worked, Auschwitz II–Birkenau was the main extermination camp where prisoners went to die in a variety of ways after being too weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows...
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...Genocide is the act of killing a large mass of people for no valid reason. The Holocaust was a genocide where the Nazi Germans tried to eliminate the Jews from Germany from 1939-1945. The Nazi Germans believed that the Jews were the reason Germany lost World War 1 and wanted them to pay for what they did. The Armenian genocide was where the Turkish people in the Ottoman Empire desired a homogenous Turkish state and wanted to get rid of the Armenians from 1915-1918. Although the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide are similar in their horrible dehumanization and unjust polarization stages, each genocide exterminated its people differently....
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...Dehumanization is the act of process of reducing people to objects that do not deserve the treatment accorded humans. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews because they blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany. The Germans dehumanized many Jews during the Holocaust, the mass murder of millions of people leading up to and during WWII. For example, at the beginning of the novel the Jewish community of Sighet is forced to evacuate from their homes. Later they are forced to sit crowded together in wagons that have no space to move around in. A Nazi officer said to them, “‘There are eighty of you in this wagon,’ added the German officer. ‘If anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like dogs...’” (Wiesel 24). This quote shows the...
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...thinking about people getting sexually abused, beat, whipped, burned, cut, is totally different from actually seeing it. In class, we thought what we were seeing was horrible, but that wasn’t even a fraction of what actually happened it was kind of just a preview. The genocide that happened in Rwanda was depressing and horrifying. But aren’t all genocides? I know how genocides happen and how people do it, dehumanization. I still can’t even imagine it though, I can’t imagine ever being in a situation where I actually killed someone or was trying to be killed. I can’t even imagine watching someone be killed even it was an accident. So after learning about this and the holocaust, my one question is how did people have enough hope to survive? Some similarities I discovered between the genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust were they both intensely used dehumanization. For example, in Rwanda they took clothes away from the women and MADE THEM be prostitutes and or raped them before they were killed or died from the terrible living conditions. An example of dehumanization in the holocaust is when they stole away their personal beliefs and publicly displayed it, like when the Nazi’s formed a crowd and shaved the Jewish man’s beard. Some other commons things that happened in both the Rwanda...
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...The Fear of Valiant Heroes "One more stab to the heart, one more to hate. One less reason to live” (Wiesel 109). Countless victims of the Holocaust gradually lost the desire to live due to the cruel acts of Hitler’s regime. Even after WWII, victims still would cling to the fear of enduring the abuse of the Nazis. Several victims wish these memories would vanish from their subconscious, but instead Elie Wiesel took the liberty of writing Night, which is a memoir that valiantly recounts his experience as a Holocaust survivor. His autobiographical account of the concentration camps grimly illustrates the agony felt by the victims and exposes to the public how the actions of the Nazi regime would mentally, physically, and emotionally affect the...
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...First, discrimination is one of the first factors that contribute to it. Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of another group of people (“Discrimination). As said, this is particularly aimed at those of different ethnic groups. Next, dehumanization is another factor that causes genocide. Dehumanization is the process of depriving an individual or group of positive qualities (“Dehumanize”). Therefore, dehumanization is clearly a horrible, and inhumane cause of genocide. Altogether, the third and final cause of genocide is extermination. Extermination is killing, especially of a whole group of people. Overall, extermination is a large part of genocide, and may contribute the most. Ergo, these factors can lead to many negative...
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...Dehumanization in Night Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. Jews begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are being treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the...
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...Dehumanization in the world Elie Weisel grew up, having to live life through the Holocaust, which was a major, emotional, and dehumanizing event for all Jews alike. The life of Elie Weisel is a heartbreaking tale of his struggles and hardships throughout the Holocaust and the unjust treatment he received. Jews were treated like animals and had to see things no one, especially children, should have to go through. Most of the time, Elie had to go against his wishes just to survive, no matter the cost. Elie’s story is based on real events that took place in 1941. Dehumanization was a very serious issue throughout the concentration camps. Many Jews were abused and treated poorly by many of the Nazi soldiers. Most of the soldiers would find no...
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...Night Essay According to dictionary.com, fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation of physical abuse, the consternation of stolen identity,and the apprehension of the way they are transported. Night has an overall theme of dehumanization. The Nazis take away all of the Jews human qualities in three ways that cause their fear....
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...Arrishen Nanthakumar Ms. Mitchell ENG 4U0 7 November 2016 Night Essay Ellie Wiesel’s purpose of writing the night was to show the world the real horrors of the holocaust. Ellie successfully created an atmosphere in which the reader can achieve a heightened understanding of the horror of the holocaust. He uses literary devices, Diction and Syntax to show how it felt to be part of the holocaust. He wrote Night to not stay silent and bear witness to the holocaust. He used literary devices such as Alliteration, Foreshadowing and Irony to really make the reader feel like they were experiencing the same things Wiesel did in the holocaust. The author used Foreshadowing using Madame Schachter. She had visions of horrible things occurring outside...
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...Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. The Jews people begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the Jews in Elie's community spent in the ghettos, which separated them from the rest of society, they were sent away. The Jews were transported using...
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...Prime Minister Winston Churchill told listeners about the horrors of World War II: "Whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands–literally scores of thousands—of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German police troops," he said. "We are in the presence of a crime without a name." Did you know Raphael Lemkin created a word to describe the Nazi’s way of killing the Jewish people, by using the ancient Greek word genos, (which means race and tribe) and the word Latin cide, (which means killing)? IT WAS GENOCIDE! Raphael Lemkin created the word Genocide because he lost his family in the Holocaust. Genocide is a mass murder that develop in ten stages: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization,...
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...Holocaust Socratic Discussion Final Reflection How does your reading (and memoir) connect to the other readings you learned about in your seminar? All the reading s that we received symbolized in word the different events that lead up to the mass genocide, otherwise known as the Holocaust. The first excerpt was about the events that occurred after World War one. There was a huge economic decline in Germany because of the inflation, debt, and the Great depression as well. The population of Germany was angry at the government, and Hitler took advantage of their anger by directing a t the Jews. The first excerpt once again enforced whatever segregative feelings the average Ayran had against the average Jew with the introduction...
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