Intervention In Elie Wiesel's Night

Life is unfathomably sacred. It is everyone’s responsibility to protect each other from genocide. Intervention prevents it from the beginning, and the affects of not doing so are consistent with dozens of genocide happenings. When unchecked, genocide spreads unnecessary suffering and loss in bulk. The rest of the world cannot stand by and remain silent, it is absolutely every country's’ responsibility to prevent genocide from occurring. Those who do not intervene do not help the victims, and thus cannot be morally legitimate because they are allowing human suffering to occur. The Catholic religion and Catechismic ideals are relevant to the question of whether intervening with genocide is moral or not. The Catholic Church teaches the basis

The quote, “…never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust…” (Wiesel 32) depicts the committing of evil by killing not only another person, but God as well. This ties in to Catechism because according to it, people are all the sons of God. This disrespects human life and pushes away God. This is when intervention would have been most welcome (again), but no one stepped in and Elie lost his faith, his dreams and his soul. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” (Wiesel 32). The actions of the Nazis are betraying the lives of the jewish people and the biggest pieces of Catechism is the respect for human life. This a betrayal of truth as well. Had immediate intervention from other countries occurred, Elie wouldn’t have had to experience the first night nor anything else he sees after this. “Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth." (Wiesel 83) Abandoned by the world, this quote demonstrates what happened to the Jews mentally from a lack of intervention. They lost what made them human, becoming empty. This goes back to Catechism’s respect for human life. The Jewish people were given no respect and its

It cost the lives of six million Jewish people: defying human life, it caused widespread suffering and permanent damage in the survivors: defying human rights, and it received silence from other countries: allowing all of this to happen. This was especially apparent in the film, Nicky's Family. The movie recounted the stories of people saved by Nicholas Winton during the Holocaust and the stories of some of their parents. During the film, the moments when victims were told to sing in the gas chambers so that they’d die faster, Mr.Winton placing multiple children's’ pictures on a single card, and some countries turning away refugees stood out most to me. These examples demonstrated mass human suffering along with the intent for evil, the effects of it, and the silence the world responded with, each respectively. The respect for human life that Catechism preaches was denied to the victims, and the help they needed was not given to them. Intervention would have prevented this