Genocidal Conflict In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel once said that “The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries-- they still flourish.” This quote summarizes how the North Korean citizens worked their hardest to get out of the North Korean territory to be able to tell the world what has been going on in North Korea. For over fifty years, one family has governed North Korea for the entity of its existence (Sarah Pruitt). This modern genocidal conflict in North Korea is similar to the Holocaust because it employs symbolization, extermination, and denial. Symbolization is stage two of genocide, and is the stage where names were given to separate

For instance, Elie Wiesel said, “When the three days were up, there was a new decrees: every Jew must wear the yellow star.” The following relates to symbolization because the Jews were identified and then had to wear the yellow star so the Nazis would know who they were even in broad daylight. The yellow star had to be worn at all times and where everyone could see, and since it was so easily seen, the Jews with the stars were easy targets. The Yellow Star and the Bible are similar in symbolization because anyone seen with it were on the death list of those with

“Mass murder was the solution to serious practical problems.” (“Extermination Camps”). This relates to the genocide conflict in North Korea because the Jews were gotten rid of because the Nazis’ needed a scapegoat. The Nazis needed a reason to kill and a way to help Germany back onto its feet after a fall. In the concentration camps of the Holocaust, SS officers working for Hitler would hurt the Jew if they did not do their job to expectations in front of the others. Like the Nazis’ the North Korean leader uses the method of execution in public to display their power so the others would fear them