In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie recounts his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The people in the camp lose more and more of their innocence each day. As soon as they enter the camp, they are stripped of their individualism, treated like animals, and subjected to such hardship that they lose their emotions. Jews were seen as “things” by the Germans during the Holocaust, and this is evidenced by how they were given numbers instead of names. Elie himself became A-7713, and from then on had no other name. The prisoners have nothing to express their personalities with, as their clothes no longer show their wealth or childhood. Unless two prisoners talk and explain their past, no one would be able to tell the difference between them. Elie, like the other prisoners, is forced to grow up quickly and live a quiet, lonely life in conformity. This causes him to lose a part of his innocence, and everyday it feels like Elie and the others become less human to the Nazis.