“Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?, said Elie Wiesel.” In his speech, The Nobel Prize, one can feel his pain and agony about the Holocaust. One can imagine the horrific events that a person went through at a concentration camp not knowing when it will come to an end. Thus at the same time, the question, why was everyone silent when the holocaust was happening? comes into play. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor. He lost his parents in his early childhood. Wiesel and his father were forced to work under appalling conditions in the concentration camps. On January 29, 1945, Wiesel’s father died due to dysentery, and starvation
