The Perils Of Indifference By Elie Wiesel

Indifference can be defined as the lack of sympathy or concern for others. More importantly, it is the active decision by many to not speak up against wrong doings. This makes crises last longer and do more harm because of people not speaking up. For example, Syria’s education is struggling, especially with wartime and the violence surrounding the children. In the text “Generation missing out on school in wartime Syria '', it states, “Experts say that puts a whole generation of Syrians at risk of coming of age illiterate, lost to a war that has killed some 140,000 people already. UNICEF estimates more than 10,000 children have died in the violence” (Surk 2). This shows the awareness UNICEF has of the horrible situation in Syria, but they either

However, disregarding the predicament in Syria is only prolonging the poor education and without any action against those participating in violence, they are only going to do worse until they are stopped. In addition, indifference is conveyed in the speech “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who was taken to a Nazi concentration camp at a young age for extraneous manual labor without proper nutrition. He took what he learned from his experiences and the outside knowledge he has on the subject now to speak on the Holocaust as a whole. In this speech, he states, “Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten” (Wiesel 3). The lack of action against the Nazis during this horrible time led to an extended war that included the deaths of millions of innocent Jews. While other countries could not see everything happening in the camps, they knew of the stories and what the Nazis were capable of. It took years for countries to make an attempt to rescue the