In the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal claims that the Nazis murdered 11 million people. A Holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel won a Nobel Peace Prize for speaking against violence. In Elies’ speech, he explains that if anyone is suffering due to their race, class, or religion their suffering is the center of the universe. Elie felt the need to write his book Night, to recognize the suffering of Jews at the hands of Nazis. Examples of human suffering in which people should interfere are the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and the Russia Vs. Ukraine conflict is happening now. As people, interference is our duty because of moral obligation and not interfering denies the victims’ humanity.
As people, interfering in a conflict is peoples’ moral obligation.
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Moreover, someone being persecuted might feel less humane when a bystander recognizes both the oppressor and the victim. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is a part of a death march after he had surgery on his foot. “I continued to run, not feeling my numb foot, not even realizing that I was still running, that I still owned a body that galloped down the road among thousands of others” (Wiesel, 87). The reason why Elie is writing this is because he felt degraded, having to run for so long that he didn’t feel like human. Elie didn’t know why Nazis were making Jews do this horrid thing, which made him feel less like a person. Additionally, other countries not knowing about the horrors happening in the world demoralizes victims. Another example of this is the Armenian Genocide, where the Armenian people were persecuted in the Ottoman empire. In an article from Yale it says, “the Young Turk regime rounded up hundreds of Armenians and hanged many of them in the streets of Istanbul” (Yale). Seeing people being hanged in the streets is definitely a dehumanizing act. Moreover, it brings the attention of the public. These two examples show how dark and violent acts can make the victim