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Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Don't kill them a second time Imagine if you were brutally murdered during the Holocaust and everybody forgot that you were ever even alive. In Elies Nobel peace prize acceptance speech he states “...if we forget them they will be killed a second time”. This shows how Elie tries to remember all that died so that society does not forget them. His speech proves that Weisel implies how we can’t forget the people that died or we will kill them a second time by forgetting them. The first piece of evidence comes from the book Night when Elie first arrives at Auschwitz and witnesses children being burned. “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a lit sky.” (Wiesel, 34) This shows that Elie …show more content…

It also proves that she will remind people of the atrocities that occurred in the camp. That quote is similar to Elies speech because they both emphasize how they will continue to share their story to educate others. Furthermore, the Japanese concentration camps are a lot more similar than we think. Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, a prisoner at the camps in America, states “But she also has a black and white photo on her dining room wall of a jagged mountain landscape. In the background are rows and rows of barracks and barbed wire fences that made up the “Manzanar war relocation center” (Migaki). Which means that she keeps the picture to remember the things that happened and also the people that she met or that died. It is probably very hard for her to keep the picture in her house, especially when it reminds her of all that happened. But although it is probably hard for her, she must keep it to remind her of all her friends and family that suffered or

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