The exact definition of ‘Human rights’ is “A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person.” How can that happen when people are being beat day after day and concentration camps are a thing? It is not possible for all human rights to be actualized for every person, and here’s why. A reason that its not possible for human rights to be actualized is that during the holocaust people got beat for everything, whether it was their fault, an accident, or something they couldn’t control. Elie Wiesel notes, “My father has never served in the military and could not march in step. But here, whenever we moved from one place to another, it was in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash …show more content…
Wiesel explains in his speech “ The perils of indifference” , “Over there, behind the black gates of Auschwitz, the most tragic of all prisoners were the ‘Muselmanner’, as they were called. Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space, unaware of who or where they were—strangers to their surroundings. They no longer felt pain, hunger, thirst. They feared nothing. They were dead and did not know” They were tortured to the point where they felt nothing and were almost completely dead (Wiesel 34-38). One human right is having the leisure to resist from work but these people have been worked non-stop until they’re the living dead. Wiesel also mentions, “One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depth of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me”, he didn’t even recognize himself after everything (Wiesel 115). They are dead, people who have lived in a concentration camp are dead it just hasn’t reached the outside of them yet. They were held as slaves and tortured to