A fiery grave, an unexplainable death, and the bystanders, that could only mean one horrific event, The Holocaust. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel was a teenager during the Holocaust. He and his family were taken into concentration camps. The book Night is the story of his time a little before when he was taken, to the very end of he’s stay in the concentration camps. Years later after the Holocaust and punishing Night Wiesel made a speech in 1999 at the White House. He gave this speech in front of President Clinton, the First Lady and a bunch of other high government officials. The speech thanked the U.S. army but also scolded the U.S. government for acting in slite favor of the Nazis. Throughout this essay I will explain which piece delivered
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It was the turn of the century, 1999, Wiesel was asked to the White House. Wiesel delivered a speech to many government officials and heads of state including the President at the time President Clinton and the First Lady. Wiesel thanked the American army for freeing him from the concentration camp, but also blamed the U.S. government for things too. In this speech Wiesel was talking about how the U.S. just stood by and didn’t stop the Holocaust as fast as they could have. “They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once. And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew”(Wiesel). Wiesel is saying that what Hitler was doing to the Jewish people was not a secret to other countries. What the U.S. did was not enough, they waited until their forces could get there instead of bombing the railroads and then fight their way to the camps. The speech Perils of Indifference was given at the White House to heads of state, but thanks to technology now many more can listen to it, one of those websites is YouTube. The speech the Mrs. Schultz had us watch has seventy four thousand seven hundred and four views already, but there are many more links with more view to add on. A lot of those views are probably views from people like us, not heads of state. A lot on people have heard the speech especially very important government
It was the turn of the century, 1999, Wiesel was asked to the White House. Wiesel delivered a speech to many government officials and heads of state including the President at the time President Clinton and the First Lady. Wiesel thanked the American army for freeing him from the concentration camp, but also blamed the U.S. government for things too. In this speech Wiesel was talking about how the U.S. just stood by and didn’t stop the Holocaust as fast as they could have. “They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once. And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew”(Wiesel). Wiesel is saying that what Hitler was doing to the Jewish people was not a secret to other countries. What the U.S. did was not enough, they waited until their forces could get there instead of bombing the railroads and then fight their way to the camps. The speech Perils of Indifference was given at the White House to heads of state, but thanks to technology now many more can listen to it, one of those websites is YouTube. The speech the Mrs. Schultz had us watch has seventy four thousand seven hundred and four views already, but there are many more links with more view to add on. A lot of those views are probably views from people like us, not heads of state. A lot on people have heard the speech especially very important government