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Treated Like An Animal

 

            At birth, every human is born with rights.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the basis of rights between all nations.  Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, expresses the way people are treated with lack of Human Rights.

 

            Elie Wiesel wrote about being a victim in a brutal experience called the Holocaust.  People were taken from their homes and put into concentration camps where people were used for labor in order to live.  While people were in these concentration camps, they were being dehumanized and treated like animals.  The Germans and others involved in the Holocaust  “..killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution,”” (Introduction to The Holocaust)  According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” (UDHR, article 5).  This law was a direct result of the Second World War.

 

            The victims who suffered in the dehumanization process during the Holocaust were being “deprived of human qualities”  They were isolated from their families and cut off from the rest of the world.  If somebody was too young, too old, or a woman, they were considered “too weak” to live and killed during the first selection.  With only a ration of soup or a piece of stale bread, the men who were still alive were forced to work long, dreadful hours.  These men were no longer considered people, but animals.  A tattoo with the victims new name was given to each man standing.  “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (Wiesel, 42).  They couldn’t care for anybody except themselves or they would risk death.  The death camp, Auschwitz, was unbearable,  “Overall eleven million people were killed…” (The Big Lie: A True Story, 141). 

 

            The Holocaust was a life changing experience for many people.  Because of the way people were treated, the United Nations created The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This document for people today in the twenty-first century is a stepping stone to creating peace between people of all nations. 

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