Dehumanization in "Night" by Molly O'Shea

"The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain." (36)

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pg 66

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After the hot shower, we stood shivering in the darkness. Our

clothes had been left behind; we had been promised other

clothes.

"We were now entitled to a blanket, a washbowl, and a bar of soap" (51)

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This shows dehumanization because that's all they got, and even that seemed like privilege to them

"Our gold teeth were to be extracted" (52)

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They really are taking teeth 😭

"Empty and dead only a few "well dressed" inmates were wandering between the blocks." (47)

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"Crammed into cattle cars by the hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform,we too were crying" (6)

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"We stayed in Gleiwitz for three days. Days without food or water. we were forbidden to leave the barrack. The door was guarded by SS. " (95)

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"All that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread... I was nothing but a body" (52)

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I once saw one of them, a boy of thir-

teen, beat his father for not making his bed properly. As the old

man quietly wept, the boy was yelling: "If you don't stop crying

instantly, I will no longer bring you bread. Understood?" (63)

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"I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it

possible that men, women, and children were being burned and

that the world kept silent?" (32)

"The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples." (16)

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"He threw himself onto me like a beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. (53)

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"I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever. I kept walking, my father holding my hand" (29)

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"But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse." (23)

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"Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes I did see this, with my own eyes... Children thrown into the flames. (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?)" Pg 32

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"They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns." (6)

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"Dozens of starving men fought desperately over afew crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest." (100)

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"A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small

children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own e y e s ... c h i l -

dren thrown into the flames."(32)

"Good night," Those were the first human words."

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pg 66

"...They said that we were sick, that we would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food" (107)

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"If I was going to kill myself, this was the time. Our column had only fifteen steps to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth chattering. Ten more steps. Eight. Seven." (33)

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I watched other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep.

These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears. pg 63

"We received more blows than food" (77)

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"The same hellish sun. The same thirst. Only there was no one left to bring us water." (19)

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The next morning, we walked toward the station, where a convoy of cattle cars was waiting. The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one... if someone managed to escape, that person would be shot.

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"We were incapable of thinking. Our senses

were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer

clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-

defense, of pride, had all deserted us."(36)

"'There are eighty of you in the car,' the German officer added 'If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.'" (24)

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The next morning, we walked toward the station, where a convoy of cattle cars was waiting. The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one...if someone managed to escape, that person would be shot. (22)

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"The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us."(26)

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"We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it." (103)

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of us left it.

"Our clothes were to be thrown on the floor at the back of the barrack. There was a pile there already. New suits, old ones, torn overcoats, rags. For us it meant true equality: nakedness. We trembled in the cold."(35)

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"Holding flashlights and sticks, they began to strike at us left and right, shouting" (28)

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"The medical checkup took place outside, early in the morning, before three doctors seated on a bench. The first hardly examined me. He just asked: " Are you in good health?" Who would have dared to admit the opposite" (48)

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"The officer came closer and shouted to him to be silent. But

my father did not hear. He continued to call me. The officer

wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head." (111)