Elie Wiesels "Nacht": Hospitalisierung im Holocaust-Narrativ

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the author—deported at age 15—is never hospitalized. The narrative follows his imprisonment across Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna (Monowitz), Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Medical care in the camps was virtually nonexistent; the “infirmary” (Revier) was a site of selection for the gas chambers, not treatment.

Wiesel’s survival was marked by starvation, forced labor, death marches, and the loss of his father—not by any clinical intervention. The absence of hospitalization underscores the systematic dehumanization and medical abandonment at the core of the Holocaust.