Between 1933 and 1945, the Holocaust was a developing event that spread throughout Europe. Wildly regarded as one of the bloodiest actions taken place on our Earth’s soil, this event was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of over 5 million European Jews by the Nazi German government and its allies and accomplices. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust victim, author, and recipient of the notorious Nobel Peace Prize, worked incessantly to educate the world on the issue of indifference and the procedures people can take to protect humanity and ensure events like the Holocaust don't repeat later in history. Wiesel discusses the injustices many individuals face because of the abnormal amount of apathy drilled inside the brains of many today and gives a harsh indictment for those who choose to be indifferent. In Wiesel’s speech, he is able to effectively persuade the noble …show more content…
Wiesel narrates, “In the place that I come from, society was composed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders. During the darkest of times, inside the ghettoes and death camps -- and I’m glad that Mrs. Clinton mentioned that we are now commemorating that event, that period, that we are now in the Days of Remembrance --but then, we felt abandoned, forgotten. All of us did.” (3). Wiesel communicates this to his audience to try and have them arrive at a point of understanding the grievances that the victims, including himself, felt and endured during the perilous times of the Holocaust. He then also speaks like he’s telling a first-hand account of the experiences during the Holocaust to add more emphasis onto his words so that his audience can comfortably clench onto what he is saying. To add, Wiesel discusses, “Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know – that they, too, would remember, and bear witness.”