First, it's important to remember to make sure that genocide doesn't happen again. It is estimated that over 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. In Wiesel's Noble Peace Prize speech, he says “Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately” ( 119). He reminds us that when we use our voice, we speak for those who can’t.
“At that time we knew nothing about the Nazis' extermination methods.” (Wiesel 20). These quotes support the claim of the Holocaust being considered a form of genocide by stating the stages of genocide and the
In times of tragedy, people tend to come together, but when the Jews desperately needed someone to speak up, silence prevailed. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, there are many lessons that Eliezer learned and he expresses those lessons through his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Throughout Night, Eliezer is faced with a huge tragedy. He is able to overcome and wants to spread awareness about the dangers of keeping quiet and the importance of speaking up. Six million Jews died due to the absence of the nation’s voice.
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.
What Wiesel was referring too is not having a second holocaust and that if people learned about the way of life inside a camp, they would not want that same way of life again. Another reason for writing was to preserve the memories of a kid inside a camp (Wiesel vii). During the time of the camps Wiesel is a young adolescent put to work for the Nazis. He explains what he saw like death and gore which he says that a kid like him shouldn 't have to see that other than in a form of literature. The next reason for Wiesel’s writing is so that he may fight against people who would forget about such a crucial event (Wiesel Acceptance Speech).
Wiesel must take it upon himself to ensure such human suffering is not repeated, that his warning will be heard and the world will take action. As he speaks about the horrors of the Holocaust, he makes sure to establish that “the world did know and remained silent”-- it was not ignorance that cost millions of lives, but apathy; silence. He continues, telling the listener “we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Wiesel wanted to make us feel sad and trust him by using pathos in the speech. At the beginning of the speech, he states, “Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” In this part of his talk, he tells the people that no one can ever make up for the loss of so many people in the concentration camps.
Wiesel informs how remembering the Holocaust is the key to preventing mass genocides like it in the future. This central idea is shared among other peoples accounts like “Night” by Ellie Wiesel, Arrival at Auschwitz testimonies, and President Biden's Holocaust Remembrance Speech. The memoir
“ … The world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured, remained silent in the face of genocide.” - Elie Wiesel. The man behind that quote is one of the few people in the world to survive one of the worst tragedies in human history, The Holocaust. An event in which millions of people perished, all because of a crazed dictator’s dream. Elie Wiesel who amazingly survived the horrors, documented his experience in his book, Night.
Hannah Patterson 23 March 2023 Honors English 10 Period 3 Dead Inside and Out During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany to kill approximately six million European Jews. Millions of Jews were tortured in harsh concentration camps for years as they fought for liberation. However, survival following this genocide was traumatic and difficult because most prisoners had lost most aspects of their lives. After Elie Wiesel’s liberation in Night, his life would be forever different because he has lost all of his family and all of his happiness.
When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you today to express the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Elie Wiesel uses persuasive techniques, rhetorical devices, and evidence. Wiesel uses his own credibility to persuade the readers of the reality of the Holocaust. He want the readers to believe that what happened was real. Elie Wiesel feels many emotions throughout his life during the Holocaust.
This excerpt is relevant to Wiesel’s biggest fear which is that the world has not learned or has simply forgotten about the Holocaust. The line “Never shall I forget…” (Wiesel, 34) is reiterated to show how important remembering is to Wiesel. This also pertains to Wiesel 's “big idea” which is that his purpose for writing Night was to never let anyone forget about the Holocaust. He hopes that this memoir helps prevent another genocide like this, and helps motivate people to stand up to injustices.
He uses memory as a method of protecting the future from the past. Wiesel explains that memory is “mystical” and that memory “will save humanity” (Wiesel 3) because the “memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil” and the “memory of death will serve as a shield against death” He says this because to prevent another event similar to the Holocaust; we must remember the evil to protect us from evil and remember those that died so that way we may protect ourselves from death. The logos he uses by telling us the uses of memory allows the reader to understand how to protect the future and how to prevent another Holocaust by remembering. Logically, there is a connection between memory and protection that was used allowed the reader to understand the importance of
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, he continued to help the audience see the importance of a non-violent approach to fighting against segregation and for equality. Martin shows us this by using allusion and symbolism to further prove his points. When using allusion, King quotes, “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together…” from the Bible. By using this quote, Luther can be inferencing many things. For example, the lamb is seen to coward down to the lion seeing as the lion at the top of the food chain, he can be comparing the oppressed to the lamb and the oppressor to the lion because it’s all the time that the person being oppressed stays quiet and takes it all in.
