Compare And Contrast Night By Elie Wiesel

Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel, two survivors of the Holocaust, were also activists within the Jewish community. They were known outside of their communities for spreading inspirational speeches and ideologies to heal and overcome the experiences of the Holocaust. Even though Eva Kor and Elie Wiesel’s ideas and motivations were different, they had the same effect on people in and outside of their communities. After all, they were both able to leave lasting impressions on the world. Elie Wiesel focused on telling his story, and describing how he survived the traumatic event through his memoir, Night, that demonstrated his perseverance through the Holocaust. Not to mention, he also produced his motivational speech, “The Perils of Indifference” that

In the memoir, when Elie and his father first arrive at the camp, another prisoner sternly tells Wiesel and his father for their safety, “Not fifty. You're forty. Do you hear? Eighteen and forty" (Weisel, 30). This took place early in the memoir because the SS officers were checking the inmates' ages, and sending young children, and older men and women to the camp's crematorium. The inmate felt the need to protect Elie and his father by telling them to lie about their age so they would not be forced into the crematorium just to die with no fight. This goal of survival is shared throughout the entire community of Jewish prisoners, including the inmate, Elie and his

Elie Weisel created this speech in order to inform others about the dangers of indifference, and how it can begin to affect almost every single community. In this speech, Wiesel explains to his audience that the main reason the holocaust occurred was because of indifference, and explains to his audience that it’s “...so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair” (Wiesel) This creates the challenge of acts of anger, discrimination and hatred onto the Jewish community, and how it impacted the holocaust’s experience for the Jewish prisoners, and how indifference is still happening today to many minorities. Wiesel relates to those who are still facing discrimination and explains how he uses partnership to overcome those challenges in hope to help those still struggling. Elie describes to his audience how the goal of partnerships is to avoid another conflict from occuring in the