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Acceptance Speech On Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech,” Elie implied that his memory and many other victims’ memories of the Holocaust should never be forgotten because he believes the victims should be remembered and honored. He believes that others should continue to stand up against antisemitism and keep these memories forever, that way, nothing like the Holocaust ever occurs again. This central idea is shared amongst many other sources, including the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, The social media article about Lily Ebert titled “It Happened,” and Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance speech. Elie Wiesel created a book called “Night.” Night was a memoir by Elie Wiesel. Elie wrote the book to share his memories and experiences during the Holocaust. On the back of the book was a summary of why Elie chose to write the book. The summary revealed why Elie implied that his memory and many other victims’ memories should not be forgotten. The summary on the back of the book states, “his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.” Elie believed it was extremely important to keep these memories alive and share them with others because something like this …show more content…

The biggest quote from this book that truly revealed why Elie felt this way was on page XV, Elie said, “For in the end it is all about memory, its sources, and its magnitude. For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear that his duty is to bear witness for the dead

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Elie explains how he has tried his best to keep the memory of these terrifying times alive because he believes that “if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices” (Wiesel 118). Throughout his speech, Elie expresses how he must never remain quiet when there is humans suffering. His religion and generation are traumatised which makes them more concerned about every race or religion.

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In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death

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In times of tragedy, people tend to come together, but when the Jews desperately needed someone to speak up, silence prevailed. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, there are many lessons that Eliezer learned and he expresses those lessons through his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Throughout Night, Eliezer is faced with a huge tragedy. He is able to overcome and wants to spread awareness about the dangers of keeping quiet and the importance of speaking up. Six million Jews died due to the absence of the nation’s voice.

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Don't kill them a second time Imagine if you were brutally murdered during the Holocaust and everybody forgot that you were ever even alive. In Elies Nobel peace prize acceptance speech he states “...if we forget them they will be killed a second time”. This shows how Elie tries to remember all that died so that society does not forget them. His speech proves that Weisel implies how we can’t forget the people that died or we will kill them a second time by forgetting them. The first piece of evidence comes from the book Night when Elie first arrives at Auschwitz and witnesses children being burned.

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In Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech of 1986 he stated that “when human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must –at that moment – become the center of the universe.” Considering the events that occurred in World War I, such as the Holocaust, I strongly agree with Wiesel’s statement about making those who are endangered our priority. It is the duty of those who inhabit this world to protect and set the imprisoned free regardless the circumstances. If no one has the courage to step up and do something to help, the oppressor will end up believing that treating people unjustly and forbid them from their freedom is indeed right.

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Elie Wiesel: Keeping Memory Alive Purpose: Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor is informing us the importance of speaking out and never to remain silent- like many countries did, during the Holocaust. Throughout his writings Elie Wiesel tries to give honor and respect to the 6 million who perished in the Holocaust, the survivors and their children with his powerful, uplifting words. Elie Wiesel also bears witness to “the horrors of his experiences at the hands of the Nazis”. Tone: Elie Wiesel’s “Keeping Memory Alive” is a very short but powerful acceptance speech. Throughout his speech, he hints to us that he was humbled by getting the nobel peace prize.

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Elie wrote the book so this would never happen again and to tell people what he really had to go through because some people think the holocaust was fake or not as bad as people make it but it really is bad because million of jews died and Elie was one of the surviuojs of that and had to watch his whole family leave ad die infront of him and he wants people to know that all those events of staving, being beaten to death, watching his father slowly die over the years, he wanted to commit subside so many times he wrote the book so these events won't happen to nobody ever again or have to go through what he had to go through during his time in the Holocaust,  It's amazing how he survived it and lived to tell his side of the

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to remember the silence he felt then and to try to connect to the dead soul and hear their mourns 2. Auschwitz could be considered the largest cemetery in the world. So why does Elie say that “the cemetery is in our hearts”? 3. What has Elie come to believe about his suffering and the suffering of people in general?

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Elie may have also felt reluctant to share his experiences and while the memoir’s “degree of sincerity remains the sole prerogative of the [author], [he] can choose to shield himself behind his own writing” (Sungolowsky .pg. 134-135), due to fear of judgment or controversy. Sungolowsky discusses the author’s decision to hide specific details from the memoir out of uneasiness of their resulting image. The manner in which the author desires to be depicted greatly

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He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. The hell Elie went through in the camps is something that he will never forget. In contrast the dehumanization the jews received was very harsh it was something that changed their lives forever. They lost their possession, family,morality and their identity. Because of the strength Elie had through this horrible experience he has gained a stronger

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Elie explains that in his writing, his goal is to not only share his story but to also share the stories of others who can’t. Many Holocaust survivors have tried and succeeded in sharing their stories.

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Kamalpreet Kaur 10/25/2015 2nd period English 11 Final Draft Essay Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust memoir about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30th, 1928. On December 10, 1986, in the Oslo City Hall, Norway, Elie Wiesel delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech. Elie Wiesel is a messenger to a variety of mankind survivors from The Holocaust talked about their experiences in the camps and their struggle with faith through the

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The writing of the memoir Night is due to Elie Wiesel’s lack of patience towards everyone’s opinions about the Holocaust when they did not experience it. He had enough of the rumors about what the experience was like, so he wrote his experience to tell people his truth. He also thought it was time for people to listen; as it is always said, heaps of people do not know how to listen correctly and he was tired of that. He wants the world to understand the pain he was enduring every day and the mental struggle of watching death occur every second. He wants people to remember the harsh words and actions that were occurring right before the Holocaust towards the Jewish community, so that if people see it again they can take care as soon as possible.

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In his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Elie Wiesel strives to inform his audience of the unbelievable atrocities of the Holocaust in order to prevent them from ever again responding to inhumanity and injustice with silence and neutrality. The structure or organization of Wiesel’s speech, his skillful use of the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos, combined with powerful rhetorical devices leads his audience to understand that they must never choose silence when they witness injustice. To do so supports the oppressors. Wiesel’s speech is tightly organized and moves the ideas forward effectively. Wiesel begins with humility, stating that he does not have the right to speak for the dead, introducing the framework of his words.

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In 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, makes two strong statements in his acceptance speech. Wiesel was 15 years old when he entered the camp in Auschuitz. His mom and little sister got killed as soon as they got to the gates. His father went into the gates with him the first time. He moved in January 1945 to Buchenwald in a cattle car.

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