Dehumanization Of Jews
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Dehumanization of Jews
Jews became animals and slaves by German in The Concentration Camp. Germans believed that Jews were an inferior race them, is for this reason, Jews lost their life, their family and their identities. First, Jews became the target of exploitation, deprivation and violence, these acts were seen as normal, inevitable, deserved and justified by Nazis. Then, Many Jews died in chambers with toxic gases, however, the survivors were forced to work hard and some died trying to escape. The Nazis changed the name of Jews by a code or a number, and they could not have anything of value in the concentration camps because everything was taken away by the Germans. Finally, some Jews were malnourished in The Concentration Camps by the lack of food and die working.
Jews were deported to The Concentration Camps and many women, children and elderly die in ovens. In the book night, Eliezer Wiesel told his experience in Bikernau, when Nazis killed his sister Tzipora and his mother in the fire chimney. Jews lived in an atmosphere of fear and terror, women were raped and they suffered many injustice. They did not have a dignified death; Jews could not say “The Kabbalah” (Jewish prayer). Moreover, Jews could not scape The Concentration Camps because it was surrounded by barbed wire and electrified wires. Germans had awareness that treated Jews as slaves or as miserable race.
When the Jews were selected for toiled, the German doctors were examined to know the health of Jews and after every Jew is put a code or a number that would identify, as example, Elie Wiesel they changed its name to “A-7713”; Germans tattooed numbers on left arms of Jews.They lost everything, their families, their homes, and their synagogues, and sometimes they were losing their belief in God. Nazi daily roll call to find out how many was killed, and how many Jews remained alive, since the aim of the Nazis was to end with the lower races.
Jews had no feeding and toiled as slaves and they just ate some bread and soup. Many Jews died working because they were weak and often without food. They worked as farmers or in factory and Jews died from hunger, harsh conditions in which they lived, the harsh climate; however, they struggled to survive these conditions. Some Jews had faith that the countries that were against Hitler to save them, for example, when Jews were liberated by United States troops in 1945, Elie Wiesel was looked in the mirror for the first time; he saw a corpse reflected in it.
Jews suffered great injustice and they were treated worse than animals. They lost their identity, their family and often their beliefs, so some thought it was a punishment from God. In 1942 to 1945, Nazis deported millions of Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they were executed in facilities designed especially for it. German Nazis forced Jews to work for The German Government, and to wear badges that marked
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