One can only imagine the horror that was brought to people when they found out that around 11 million people were executed because of the ignorance towards the Jewish people and their beliefs. Emerson claimed that “Fear always springs from ignorance,” because of the German followers who went along with what Hitler claimed he was going to do, a plan to eliminate innocent people because of their beliefs and fear of what impact would be realized to the future of society, and the Nazi parties’ choices while the Holocaust was occurring.
Hitler developed a plan which unfortunately, Elie Wisel experienced which included being taken from his home along with his parents and little sister Tzipora, as well as the other millions of people who’s families were captured and taken to the concentration camps as well. When they arrived, they were “Stripped of possessions, all human ties severed, the prisoners found themselves in a social and cultural void.” Page 2 of Hope, Despair, and Memory. This leads to them losing their …show more content…
“The SS had fled and the resistance had taken charge of the camp. At six o’clock that afternoon the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald.” Page 115 from Night. It was at this moment that they must have felt the realization that they would be free and that the Germans had failed to exterminate them from the planet Earth. I don’t know that they felt this immediately, but my hope is that they felt that they could prevent it from happening again, as the book Night reminds all of us that history can teach us about the future. Future extinctions of one group should be prevented because historical references should remove fear, and provide demonstrations that with knowledge is power and with power is the ability to make educated decisions stopping the cycle that “fear always springs from
Hitler developed a plan which unfortunately, Elie Wisel experienced which included being taken from his home along with his parents and little sister Tzipora, as well as the other millions of people who’s families were captured and taken to the concentration camps as well. When they arrived, they were “Stripped of possessions, all human ties severed, the prisoners found themselves in a social and cultural void.” Page 2 of Hope, Despair, and Memory. This leads to them losing their …show more content…
“The SS had fled and the resistance had taken charge of the camp. At six o’clock that afternoon the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald.” Page 115 from Night. It was at this moment that they must have felt the realization that they would be free and that the Germans had failed to exterminate them from the planet Earth. I don’t know that they felt this immediately, but my hope is that they felt that they could prevent it from happening again, as the book Night reminds all of us that history can teach us about the future. Future extinctions of one group should be prevented because historical references should remove fear, and provide demonstrations that with knowledge is power and with power is the ability to make educated decisions stopping the cycle that “fear always springs from