People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism (ed. Harcourt, 1982) - ISBN: 9780155658110