The Perils of Indifference
In April, 1999, Elie Wiesel gave a speech to the public about the truth of the Holocaust, and the idea of never forget what happened from it. Wiesel was born to a religious Jewish family in Romania at 1928, but his life suddenly changed when the Nazis deported him to Auschwitz at 1944. After the Allies freed him, Wiesel stay in a French orphanage for a few years because of his father’s death from the Holocaust in 1945, then worked in a French Newspaper to begin his writing. He began writing several books about the Holocaust while he became the United States’ (U.S.) citizens in 1963, and was appoint to the chair of presidential commission on the Holocaust in 1978. Wiesel’s reason to give a speech about the Holocaust …show more content…
However, the definition of the word Indifference in the dictionary means if a subject is lacks of interest, or not concern of. Wiesel mention the tragedy of St. Louis, which when 1,000 Jews was turned back to Nazi Germany by U.S. because of the lack of identification (passport). He also mention if the Allies would understand what happened in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, then they would have bombed the railways that help the Nazis’ intelligent to catch other Jewish people already. Nevertheless, he mention the misunderstanding of why American’s largest corporations continue to trade with Hitler’s Germany until 1942, and mentioned the Wehrmacht could not success its invasion of France without the oil American company sold. Therefore, he spoke more about the Korea war, the Vietnam War, the Kosovo war, and the 1st Gulf war that people still do not learn lesson from the Holocaust. The assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, Gandhi, Sadat, and Rabin, those assassination happened after the fall of the Nazis Germany, after World War two (WWII). The civil rights movement, which also happen after WWII, while the people tried to get their right and succeeded it.
Elie Wiesel’s speech was full of complexity from his emotional mind about what had been through in his life. It was not easy for most of the people to understand because the pain it contains was not simple. However, his speech is more likely to be viewed as a theory or a belief that remind people to stand for what matters. Therefore, the purpose of the speech can be defined in the way of how it impacted the people. The speech accomplished what he wanted to tell
In April, 1999, Elie Wiesel gave a speech to the public about the truth of the Holocaust, and the idea of never forget what happened from it. Wiesel was born to a religious Jewish family in Romania at 1928, but his life suddenly changed when the Nazis deported him to Auschwitz at 1944. After the Allies freed him, Wiesel stay in a French orphanage for a few years because of his father’s death from the Holocaust in 1945, then worked in a French Newspaper to begin his writing. He began writing several books about the Holocaust while he became the United States’ (U.S.) citizens in 1963, and was appoint to the chair of presidential commission on the Holocaust in 1978. Wiesel’s reason to give a speech about the Holocaust …show more content…
However, the definition of the word Indifference in the dictionary means if a subject is lacks of interest, or not concern of. Wiesel mention the tragedy of St. Louis, which when 1,000 Jews was turned back to Nazi Germany by U.S. because of the lack of identification (passport). He also mention if the Allies would understand what happened in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, then they would have bombed the railways that help the Nazis’ intelligent to catch other Jewish people already. Nevertheless, he mention the misunderstanding of why American’s largest corporations continue to trade with Hitler’s Germany until 1942, and mentioned the Wehrmacht could not success its invasion of France without the oil American company sold. Therefore, he spoke more about the Korea war, the Vietnam War, the Kosovo war, and the 1st Gulf war that people still do not learn lesson from the Holocaust. The assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, Gandhi, Sadat, and Rabin, those assassination happened after the fall of the Nazis Germany, after World War two (WWII). The civil rights movement, which also happen after WWII, while the people tried to get their right and succeeded it.
Elie Wiesel’s speech was full of complexity from his emotional mind about what had been through in his life. It was not easy for most of the people to understand because the pain it contains was not simple. However, his speech is more likely to be viewed as a theory or a belief that remind people to stand for what matters. Therefore, the purpose of the speech can be defined in the way of how it impacted the people. The speech accomplished what he wanted to tell