Genocide can be defined as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race” (Encyclopedia Brittanica). Throughout history, numerous genocides have occurred around the world, such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. During these genocides, members of the minority were somehow dehumanized. Many steps are taken when genocide such as dehumanization takes place. Dehumanization is the act of portraying members of a minority group into a subhuman category and the denial of human rights to a minority group (Whitehorn 16). Many acts that take place in the novel Night and during the Rwandan genocide can be classified as acts of dehumanization, for example the way the Jewish people and the Tutsis were viewed, the brutality that occurred during these genocides and the control exercised over them they. the minority groups of Jews and Tutsis. The novel, Night, tells the story of a teenager, Elie Wiesel, who is taken and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Elie Wiesel's stay in these concentration camps occurred in 1944, which were the final years of the "Holocaust" known as the mass killing of Jews. While staying in these concentration camps, Elie Wiesel witnessed many deaths, such as the death of his family members, the death of other members who resided in the concentration camp, and even the death of his own innocence. Throughout the novel, events occur that can be classified as dehumanization towards Elie Wiesel and the other characters in the novel. In comparison, during the Rwandan genocide there were also acts that dehumanized the Tutsi people. The Rwandan genocide is classified as the mass killing of the Tutsi population carried out by the Hutu. Dehumanization occurs when a minority group is