Biography Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania. During his teenage years, World War II broke out, and Wiesel, due to his Jewish beliefs, was captured and taken to a concentration camp. In May of 1944 Elie Wiesel arrived at Birkenau camp on a Hungarian transport train, at which Elie was only a mere 15 and a half years old. Elie and his father stayed in the Birkenau camp for only a few days before being transferred to the main Auschwitz camp where he was kept in quarantine for a couple of weeks. Elie was saved from the gas chamber because he and his father were selected to work in the Buna Werke camp at Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III. His two older sisters also survived, but he never saw his mother and younger sister again after he was separated from them upon arrival at Birkenau. Unfortunately, during one of the marches, …show more content…
It is 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. Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest. Indifference reduces the other to an abstraction” (Wiesel). Explanation: Wiesel is explaining that indifference is an easy option when one is shown with what is going on in the world. Unfortunately, becoming indifferent is more appealing than presenting feelings to victims. When someone shows indifference to victims, that person reduces the victim to nothing. The fact of the matter is that ignoring victims removes “...another person's pain and despair” from one’s thoughts (Wiesel). It’s that when one becomes indifferent they feel as if they are rid of the responsibility to help fix the atrocities that occur in the