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What Was The Significance Of Silence In Night By Elie Wiesel

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There are many reasons that it is magnificently significant that the lessons learned from the Holocaust be discussed and passed on to further generations. There are reasons from the idea of it to the cause of it. Those reasons include the silence and indifference of the victims, understanding the world’s largest and well known atrocity persecution, and preventing the hatred that led to the genocide.
Like Elie Wiesel stated “The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the … Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” It explains this reason ideally because the disinterest (hatred) empowers (the Nazis and Germans in this case) to express cruel treatment. That the silence
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