Injustice In Elie Wiesel's Memoir Night

In his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Elie Wiesel illustrates how to remain silent while injustice is happening is to support that injustice and people should never stand by while injustice is happening. In Elie Wiesel's Memoir Night, Elie depicts how he watched his father get slapped with “...such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.” Elie then describes how he reacted and felt, he says “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39). He then says that “remorse began to gnaw at me.” because he had watched his father suffer an injustice, watched it happen and not do anything about it, he just stood and watched his father get hit, and that made him feel horrible and as if he had wronged his father himself. Another example of Elie describing my central

You can see how he feels about it when he says he knows how it's so much easier to look away but then he says that their life is meaningless in doing so. The last quote to support this central idea comes from an article about Lily Ebert and her mission to spread awareness about the Holocaust and to share her story as a witness to the Holocaust and a survivor herself. The article describes Eberts's mission and says “Ebert made a promise to herself: She would tell people what had happened there and, in doing so, change the world.” This quote shows that people still to this day don't know much about the Holocaust and the fact that people don't know, according to Lily, “the biggest crime against humanity” shows that people just don't care about it as much as they should and, tieing back to Elie, means that all those millions of lives that were lost are meaningless because people choose to try to ignore or forget the “the biggest crime against