Humans are naturally prone to forgetfulness, but the Holocaust is not an event that we as humans today should ever forget. The memoir Night shows the horrors of dehumanization and other acts of genocide in the Holocaust from the accounts of Elie Wiesel. In his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, he says, “Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. We could not prevent their deaths the first time, but if we forget them, they will be killed a second time. And this time, it will be our responsibility,” (Wiesel). The main reason Elie is saying this is because he’s expressing how the losses from the Holocaust aren’t a matter to be forgotten, and that if we let others forget, the survivor’s memories and lives will slowly fade away. …show more content…
Night is not the only account, nor the only source expressing this, as seen in many other statements. Additionally, these sources all connect back and emphasize the importance of not forgetting and turning a blind eye to the countless people who have lost their lives and have been considered merely as the death count and not as individual victims. Furthermore, it’s clear to those that one of Elie’s main central ideas is to inform how forgetfulness is a fault of human nature, but we should strive to remember what happened to those victimized and killed during the Holocaust. An instant that shows this is in “Chapter 6” of Night where there’s a strong connection of strain with remembrance as Elie asks the reader a rhetorical question, it’s powerful and makes the reader think and reflect over the whole book and their other knowledge of what happened in the audience. “How could I forget” (Wiesel 95). Elie’s question is almost quite literally the basis of his central idea, how could he forget? Who would be able to forget something as atrocious as what Elie and many others had to