Elie Wiesel once said, “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, by the silence of the bystander”. This quote means that being put through something so horrific as the holocaust concentration camps was not the worst part of the holocaust, but rather that people knew what was going on but never took action to stop this tragic event. The injustice of the people, mostly Jews, who had to go through the process of leaving everything behind and starting a new life where they were forced to work together in very unstable conditions is something that can never be payed back. This injustice lead to more than just the time and lives that we can't get back, it lead to dehumanization of innocent woman, children, men, elders, and …show more content…
He explains the ups and downs of his childhood, and then he starts to explain the tragedies he faced and how that got him where he is today. Wiesel was a young Jewish boy when the whole war began. He was living with his Mother, Father, and three sisters. Then everything started to change. Wiesel explained in the documentary that all of the Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothes indicating that they were Jewish. This form of injustice was just the start of all the atrocities that were soon to come. At this time Jews still had many rights with the exceptions of some things, but they were now treated as less superior than others because they had this marking on their clothes. Little did people know that this injustice would lead to the deaths of their neighbors that they once knew and loved. Another injustice that Wiesel mentioned in this documentary was that all of the Jews were rounded up like animals while the soldiers verbally and physically abused them. The way the Jews were rounded up was almost as if the soldiers were treating them like zoo animals, and they needed to be rounded up and contained. No person should be treated like an animal, they should be treated like a human no matter the circumstance. These two events were key parts in the documentary that showed that the nazis treated the Jews with such injustice that it lead to them dehumanizing these innocent …show more content…
This documentary is one of the toughest videos to ever watch. It shows the more than dreadful images of prisoners, and the horrid conditions that they endured. Images sometimes were more tough to swallow than others, words were more touching than some, but more than anything the pain in the prisoner's eyes is what set the feeling of pure terror in someone's heart. One piece of evidence collected from this documentary is the camps were made specifically for the Jews which later lead to the Jews being completely wiped out. This premeditated action of making the concentration camps was so disturbing that it lead to the holocaust killings over 11 million innocent lives. No reason will ever be enough to dehumanize a living being until the point where someone has the right to take away their life. Another piece of evidence was when the nazis killed the Jews later leading to their bodies being thrown around almost like trash that they just need to get rid of. This injust of killing Jews lead to the more than offsetting feeling one gets after seeing dehumanized bodies being plowed over by a tractor. No matter the circumstance, no matter the situation, no matter any problem someone has with another never can result in the dehumanizing actions that make someone else's life so miserable they are better off dead than
Injustice “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. (Wiesel)”
They couldn't speak. Most of them were lying on the ground, many of them were unconscious," (Light One Candle, 377). The prisoners in the death camps were treated like animals. No persons civil rights should be taken away from them to that extent. It is inhuman.
Throughout the history of the world, there have always been violations of human rights where people are stripped of land, prosecuted, killed, and so many more unthinkable acts of torture. How can a human being cause such harm to another human being? Could it be out of hatred of religion, race, and/or gender? The Holocaust is an example of this. Millions of Jews were placed in concentration camps during World War II, and among them was a young boy named Elie Wiesel.
Silence towards injustice, is perhaps the most ignorant way to prevent dehumanization from repeating again. In the story Night, this action is repeated without thought or question and has resulted in pain and agony. To prevent this, humanity must be able to protect itself before protecting others, otherwise there is no point in continuing a pointless battle without any motivation. In the documentation of Elie Wiesel, a clear description of Elie Wiesel’s beliefs is that once a witnesses has seen a key event in a crime or timeline, that they have full obligation to come forward and admit they have seen that right in front of the authorities.
Wiesel is baffled to watch as the brawny men beat at such a frail woman with her own young boy watching. The absurdity continues when his dad is beaten for morsels of scraps and as children abandon their families that they found have been holding them back. All these occurrences absolutely stun him in the fact that such events simply give the Nazi’s confirmation that the Jewish people are horrid swine and assuring the Nazi’s that their extermination is undoubtedly the just thing to
Although he slowly gave faith away, one reason would be to discourage Wiesel by injustice. For example, Violence, to kill, disadvantage, to anger, would impact the Jews with misery. In Night, the book Elie Wiesel wrote, he admits,”Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells”(69-70). Anyone can dream dearly about the true, genuine contentment in their hearts, but one must face reality when conditions get vigorous.
In the beginning of Wiesel’s novel, the reader is introduced to a boy named Moishee who is targeted by the Germans before the Jews know the danger they are in. Moishee saw terrible things while in captivity, but he finds a way to escape the Germans and returns to his home town to warn the Jews of the atrocities he witnessed while in German captivity. “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one to offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (6). The Germans had once lived in harmony with the Jews, but suddenly they turned on them, morphing into brutal monsters.
A quarrel is better than a cold war, and we better remind ourselves the situations that we choose to be indifference toward our friends and families. Elie Wiesel urges people to face their own indifference, addressing that indifference denies the humanity of victims. This whole speech is based on the ethos of Wiesel, conveying the message that he himself symbolizes humanity. Wiesel refers to his own experience during the Holocaust, the most infamous and evil event in history.
The holocaust is one of the most tragic events in history. There were so many ways that Jews tried to escape, and even live during the whole thing. The Jews fought hard against the Germans , they found ways to escape, and they lived through what Hitler put them through. So many Jews were killed each day at all of the concentration camps, that lots of family members were very sad when they found out that
Tortured, hungry, and worked almost to death, Holocaust victims have faced problems we all hope we never need to deal with. The Holocaust was one of the biggest genocides known to man, with around eleven million people killed, and other millions enslaved. With very few survivors still living today, the Jewish were exploited then and now almost one hundred years later, are still being taken advantage of. Millions of dollars in donations and funds that are meant to help Holocaust survivors live comfortably are being used inappropriately right under the survivors ' noses. Survivors and their funds are being taken advantage of by the Israeli Government, and corporations such as the Jewish Claims Conference.
There were many who collaborated and murdered Jews, yet there were even more who kept silent and did nothing to stop this from happening. There were Nazis at the time who laughed at their victims, saying: If you try to tell people about this afterwards, no one will believe you! (Today, if you look on the internet, you will encounter hundreds of evil sites dedicated to anti-Semitism and denying that the Holocaust, a historical fact, took place.) So, the role of witnesses like Elie Wiesel is to fight the amoral indifference in this world, to remind us that he saw how the "cultured" Europeans degraded and murdered so many innocent individual human beings.
Elie Wiesel voiced his emotions and thoughts of the horrors done to Jewish people during World War II whilst developing his claim. Wiesel “remember[s] his bewilderment,” “his astonishment,” and “his anguish” when he saw they were dropped into the ghetto to become slaves and to be slaughtered. He repeats the words “I remember” because he and the world, especially those who suffered in the ghettos and camps, would never be able to forget how innocent suffered. Consequently, he emphasized that “no one” has the right to advocate for the dead. Like many other people in the world, he lost his family during the war.
Violations of our Everyday Life During the Holocaust, many of the Human Rights we exercise today were broken. Consequently, millions of innocent and law-abiding people were killed during this time. The Jews were forced to labor endlessly in concentration camps, and lives were changed for the worse. Three of our precious Human Rights that were broken were: Our right to equality, freedom from discrimination, and the license from torture and degrading treatment. Their equality was destroyed at the start of the Holocaust.
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.
Justice is derived from the root word just, meaning agreeing to what is considered morally right or good; treating people in a way that is morally right; or reasonable or proper. However, society has become so entangled up in the power which certain individuals possess, they forget all about what is “just”. The justice theory is that justice is at the advantage of the stronger. When an individual is described or depicted as being “strong”, that individual is typically of a larger build, possesses some sort of weapon that causes them to be mighty, and is typically large in size. No matter what circumstances arise, these individuals are expected to be victorious in each battle they fight.