When he was a child, Wiesel was extremely religious, studying “Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah” (Henry 1) everyday. Wiesel invited God into his speech by claiming “we”, being all of the Jews, felt as if they were being abandoned by God. However, they kept their faith, believing it was better to suffer with Christ than against Christ. Wiesel claimed it was “better an unjust God than an indifferent one” (Wiesel 2). This represents Wiesel’s philosophy towards the Holocaust, and about the fact that multiple countries were indeed aware of the cruel behaviors that the Jews were facing. By ignoring the gruesome events occurring in Germany, this made the ignorant countries worse than Germany because they were aware and chose to do nothing. Evidence that the countries, such as the United States, ignored the cries of the Jews resurfaced in the tale of St. Louis. The St. Louis tale is rather a melancholy one. 1,000 newly liberated Jews fresh out of concentration camps arrived in the American Harbors, and they were sent back to Nazi Germany. Wiesel questions the United States priority, since he believed that corporations were more concerned about trade relations than human
When he was a child, Wiesel was extremely religious, studying “Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah” (Henry 1) everyday. Wiesel invited God into his speech by claiming “we”, being all of the Jews, felt as if they were being abandoned by God. However, they kept their faith, believing it was better to suffer with Christ than against Christ. Wiesel claimed it was “better an unjust God than an indifferent one” (Wiesel 2). This represents Wiesel’s philosophy towards the Holocaust, and about the fact that multiple countries were indeed aware of the cruel behaviors that the Jews were facing. By ignoring the gruesome events occurring in Germany, this made the ignorant countries worse than Germany because they were aware and chose to do nothing. Evidence that the countries, such as the United States, ignored the cries of the Jews resurfaced in the tale of St. Louis. The St. Louis tale is rather a melancholy one. 1,000 newly liberated Jews fresh out of concentration camps arrived in the American Harbors, and they were sent back to Nazi Germany. Wiesel questions the United States priority, since he believed that corporations were more concerned about trade relations than human