The Holocaust In Elie Wiesel's Dehumanization Of The Jews

The Holocaust was a prominent issue during the 20th century, It was the genocide of Jews, the disabled, Homosexuals and Gypsies. This horror was implemented by the Nazi party. However, certain people around the world never experienced the oppression of the Nazi party. A boy named Elie Wiesel born in Sighet, Romania was an aspiring Rabbi. Elie and his family were eventually forced out of Sighet by the Nazis due to fact that he was a Jew. In Sighet, many had never seen a Nazi soldier, so the arrival was unexpected. Many believed that the Nazis were not as bad as people made them seem. The Jews in Sighet were unaware of the level of control the the Nazi’s had until they flooded their streets with army vehicles. When the Nazis first arrived in Sighet, they created a faux appearance which made them appear nice and completely harmless. The purpose of this was to avoid a panic being caused and when they were ready, the liquidation process would take place. The treatment by the Nazis made the Jews do unimaginable things. The Nazi’s dehumanized the Jews by

In the cattle car there was a elderly woman referred to as Mrs. Schachter, she was put in cattle car with Elie and after a day or so of being in the car she kept yelling “Fire” even though there was no visible sign of fire anywhere. However other people in the car had no toleration of this due their critical condition of survival, after she would not stop yelling the men in the car began to hit the woman “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal “ (26). These are some examples of harsh treatment of the Jews by the Nazis, which led to animalistic behaviors from the