All humans should feel emotions, but when people have nothing to hold onto, positive emotions can become dormant. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, is the story of Wiesel surviving the Holocaust with the help of his father and struggling to survive day after day. Wiesel suffered brutal conditions in the labor camps and managed to survive the agony as he watched others die every day. The unnatural behavior of the SS led to a dehumanization that shattered the faith of Elie Wiesel and many other prisoners. Although the first impressions of the German soldiers were initially reassuring to Wiesel and many Jews, shortly after their arrival the Jews' freedoms were taken without warning. warning. German soldiers took the rights of the Jews one at a time. First, Jews were not allowed to leave their homes for three days. Afterwards they were no longer allowed to keep gold, jewels or valuables. Wiesel explains: “Everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under penalty of death. My father went down to the cellar and buried his savings” (8). Subsequently, they were forced to wear the yellow star. Ultimately, Jews were not allowed to enter restaurants or cafes, travel by train, go to synagogue, or go out on the streets after six o'clock. The last step was the formation of two ghettos in the city of Sighet. It was as if they were dogs in a fenced cage, not allowed to go anywhere or do anything. When the Jews began questioning Wiesel's father during the development of these rules, he reassured everyone and acted as if it was no big deal. Wiesel's father settled and acknowledged the situation by stating, “The yellow star? Oh well, so what? You will not die from it…” (Wiesel 9). None of the Jews, including Wiesel's family... in the center of the paper... the crematorium. Understanding how all the SS treated prisoners horribly is not understandable to humans today. Human nature would have feelings for others. The unimaginable actions of the German authorities in the Holocaust concentration camps were expected to be tolerated by weak prisoners like Wiesel or death was an alternative. These constant actions by SS officers destroyed the identification of who Wiesel truly was. When Wiesel's physical state left, so did his mental state. If a prisoner chose to have a mind of his own and did not follow the commands of the SS officer, he was written brutally beaten or even, in severe cases, sentenced to death. After the liberation Wiesel looked in the mirror and no longer even recognized who he was. No prisoner involved in the Holocaust could avoid inner and outer turmoil.