Neutrality And Silence In Ellie Wiesel's Keep Memory Alive

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In Ellie Wiesel ‘’Keep Memory Alive’ ’was the main idea of the speech. In his acceptance speech, Ellie Wiesel makes too strong statements towards the end of his speech regarding neutrality and silence in face of adversity. The name of the camp that he was in was called Auschwitz. In May 1944 is when he was first enter in the camp. He was only 15 years old. In January 1945 he got move to a different camp called Buchenwald. ‘’Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ’The Jews allies were the British, French, and U.S. While all this bad was going on they never did nothing to stop it. If they would had done something about it there wouldn’t been so many lives gone. They could really