Silence And Negligence In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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In Night, one is faced with silence and negligence from the world. While being unwillingly evacuated from his home, Eliezer’s friends and neighbours stayed inside and watched as their former companions marched to their impending death. As Eliezer noted, “from behind their windows, from behind their shutters, our fellow citizens watched as we passed.’ (Eliezer Wiesel, 19) The Hungarian civilians watched in silence too naive and confused to approach the German military and help the Jewish people. Throughout the memoir, Eliezer takes great observation of how ruthless and malicious the German military guards were. Eva Olson a holocaust survivor once said, “The reason why the Germans took so many pictures was because they were proud and wanted