Differences In Night By Elie Wiesel

Indifference Kills

ADL’s Pyramid of Hate states how every genocide that has ever happened on earth will always start with a biased attitude towards a group of people. This biased attitude leads to acts of discrimination, dehumanization, this is followed by, extreme systemic discrimination, then bias motivates violence and finally genocide. Another aspect that most people forget when a genocide happens is the response from the rest of the world. To show what happens when societies disregard their obligation to help each other we can see from Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's first hand accounts about living through the fascist Nazi regime during the Holocaust. Under Nazi rule; anti- Semitism, racism, and homophobia were extremely prevalent

In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he recollects his accounts of living through several Nazi internment camps. He writes several instances where he believes that the Nazis wouldn't advance to his home town of Sighet. In the very beginning of the novel in the spring of 1944 we are told how “Hilter will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to” (8). As well as “The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest” (9). This is important because it shows how the community in Sighet believed that Hilter and his Nazis wouldn't reach them. This shows how the town is indifferent to the rest of the world and only cares about their day to day lives and not the massive war roaring over several continents. Another part of the memoir that shows this isolationist and lack of care is when we are introduced to Moishe the Beadle and his accounts after he was deported back to Poland. Willest, arriving back to Sighet he tells Elie how the Nazis were digging mass graves of the jewish people and shooting babies for firing practices. This is important because the people of Sighet disregard his accounts. The reason why the people disregard his accounts is because they want to burden themselves with the fact that Poland is so far away, so why is that our problem? But of course knowing that this is a book about a Jewish community in world war two the Nazis will

In Niemoller's critically acclaimed poem titled “First They Came for the Jews,” in this poem we are told how “First they came for the Jews/ and I did not speak out/ because I was not a Jew/…Then there was no one left/ to speak out to me”(lines 1-12). This proves how if people in the society disregard others then eventually they'll come for you and your beliefs. Even if you're not part of that group we should care about their problems because their problems will always affect you. We can compare this to the food chain in a way, if one animal was to die out then that would cause a massive ripple in the food chain affecting the rest of the chain. Another author that shares this claim is Tadeusz Borowski, in his poem he writes “Like God's judgment on the corpse of the earth,/fog descends over Birkenau”(“Night over Birkenau”, lines 15-16). This is important because according to a Holocaust survivor it wasn't the Nazis who spirituality broke them but it was the indifferences from God that didn't save them. Then the fog represents the lack of eyes of compassionate non-Nazis looking at Birkenau and Borowski's Jewish