Bearing Witness In Night By Elie Wiesel

One way authors show their understanding of the impact bearing witness has on others is by preserving history. By doing this, Alexander Kimel, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel raise awareness about events from the Holocaust that could go ignored and ultimately forgotten. The first way an author shows this is in The Action in the Ghetto of Rohatyn, March 1942. In this poem, The author struggles to understand and remember what happened while he was placed in the Ghetto of Rohatyn. He soon realizes the responsibility of bearing witness, and that even if it is difficult, he is obligated to remember, so that he can preserve history, “And a long tortuous journey into an unnamed place / Converting living souls, into ashes and gas. / No. I have to remember and never let you

Another example comes from the book Night. This book is about a boy who describes his experiences while living through the Holocaust. However, the book also shows light on characters who do not have a voice, because they did not get to live through the experience, "Even Moishe the Beadle had fallen silent. He was weary of talking. He would drift through synagogue or through the streets, hunched over, eyes cast down, avoiding people's gaze." (Weisel, 8) This quote is about a man from Weisel’s hometown. From the quote, the reader knows by the first letter “Even” that Moishe the Beadle was not always silent. The man had endorsed an event that forced him to silence himself and without Weisel. Moishe the Beadle would not be a known figure. However, the author utilized his powerful responsibility to preserve history after observing the figure.The final example comes from the poem The Survivor. In this poem, the author struggles to fathom what he has went through during the Holocaust. The author continues to relive the experience in his head repeatedly, “Once more he sees his companions’ faces / Livid in the first faint light, / Gray with cement dust,” (Levi,