Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference" condenses the essence of its message into the title, though it is a more general condemnation of indifference than the word "perils" might suggest....

In a way, Moshe the Beadle's story is an allegory for Elie Wiesel's own story. Moshe the Beadle sees firsthand the horror of what awaits the Jews, and he attempts to share this experience with...

Eliezer is summoned to the dentist because the gold crown on one of his teeth is going to be extracted. The Nazis, in addition to confiscating the money and property of Jews, stole anything else...

In Chapter Six of Night, the prisoners are forced to run through the snow "like automatons" by SS forces; anyone who slows down is shot to death, an act in which the SS takes great pleasure....

Near the end of Night, Elie Wiesel realizes that the lines of battle are approaching Buchenwald. The SS prepares one last effort at resistance: The battle did not last long. Toward noon everything...

I believe you may have miscounted by one, and it is actually paragraphs 16-17 that can be seen to develop the central ideas of Wiesel's Night, as you suggest. I'll quote them, the two brief...

I agree with akannan's post to your question. I want to add that the kind of indefference that is being discussed by Elie Wiesel is the kind of head turning that the German people did during the...

There are sadly so many ways to answer this question. Perhaps, one way in which Eliezer died was with the death of his faith, something he was relegated to questioning and denouncing with the...

The original question had to be edited down. I think that the audience Wiesel is addressing in his speech is a unique mix of individuals. On one hand, Wiesel is clearly mindful that part of his...

When Moshe is deported, he is witness to the true horror of the Nazis. He understands, probably before anyone else in Sighet, what "the Final Solution" really entails. There can be no denial in...

In chapter six of his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts the harrowing forced march from Buna to Gleiwitz in the middle of winter. With SS guards hounding them at every step, the Jews are made to...

In Chapter 4, Elie witnesses the horrific, tragic execution of a young pipel, who is hanged in front of the prisoners. What makes the pipel's execution particularly difficult to watch is the way he...

In Night, Elie Wiesel recounts a nightmare of reality which is not merely his own experience as a Holocaust survivor, but is in some ways symbolic of all human suffering, especially that of other...

Elie Wiesel was 15-years-old when he was imprisoned in and eventually liberated from German concentration camps. He has subsequently spent the next 70 years with one main mission: warning the rest...

I believe that Elie Wiesel always shows bias and does in this speech The Perils of Indifference as well. His bias is that the world and its people should not be indifferent to the suffering of the...

Wiesel does not focus his work and writing exclusively on the relationship between fathers and sons. His advocacy for greater understanding of the Holocaust is more general in scope. Wiesel's...

The circumstances that Elie Wiesel presents in Night are some of the most challenging to which any individual might ever have to respond. Wiesel reveals to the reader the doubts that endlessly...

I think that the arguments presented in Wiesel's speech are highly logical and force democratic societies that stand for freedom and tolerance to examine their own policies and predispositions....

Family is something that most people have experience with and strong feelings about. Even if we have disagreements or suffer hardships with our parents, grandparents, and siblings, we are bound to...

Wiesel's narrative power is based on the honest, direct way he describes his feelings and reactions: in Night, he narrates the events with total objectivity but still does so emotionally. In his...

Elie Wiesel is a survivor the greatest of mass murder in history, the Holocaust. As a young man, he was sent to the most notorious concentration camps run by Nazi Germany, Buchenwald and...

I think is what the author is trying to say is that it is better that there is a God who cares than one who does not care at all. The word "unjust" means that sometimes things happen that cannot be...

The original question had to be edited down. I would say that the base subject matter of Wiesel's speech is the how the ethical position of indifference is tantamount to perpetrating cruelty....

The original question had to be edited. I invite you to resubmit the second question in another question. Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize speech stresses the need to overcome indifference. For...

The thought of losing his father is of utmost importance in Elie's mind during the disastrous march from Buna to Birkenau. The prisoners are forced to essentially run 42 miles in the freezing snow,...

Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. He spent two years in a refugee home in France, during which time he learned French and developed an interest in...

As the train arrives at Birkenau in chapter three of Ellie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the people on the train have to abandon their belongings. Ellie says that when they get off the train “the beloved...

In Night, Elie Wiesel tells of arriving at Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Initially, Elie was happy to be able to stay with his father, but his happiness quickly turns to fear and dread when one...

Auschwitz, Dacchau and Buchenwald were "death" camps or "extermination" camps. The main reason a prisoner was sent to one of these camps was for extermination. Zyklon-B gas was the cheapest, most...

One of Wiesel's strengths is that his work operates as both historical, but also ethical. Wiesel's work is dedicated to the proposition that human beings have a role in impacting the lives of...

There are several differences between the portrayals of the Holocaust in Maus and Night. Both books are about people who survived the holocaust; Maus is even subtitled A Survivor’s Tale. However,...

This is a speculation answer, but we can use the text of Night to determine some possible explanations for what would have happened if the dentist hadn’t kept the gold. In Night, Elie is told to...

Indeed, I think if we are committed to the traditionally liberal notions of democracy, self rule, freedom to act and freedom to be left alone, one has little other choice but to act when another is...

Wiesel has served as the moral conscious of the world in regard to genocide and silence since being liberated from the camp and "seeing a corpse stare back at me." He emerged as a journalist and...

In his speech, Elie Wiesel is trying to persuade people that they need to care more about other people. He is saying that they have to stop being indifferent about the terrible things that happen...

In September of 1979, referring to the Holocaust Museum, (Wiesel was the first chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council), Eli Wiesel spoke about the relevance of remembering the past so as to...

Elie spent some time in an orphanage shortly after his liberation. Afterwards, he attended school in France and eventually found out that his two older sisters had survived the concentration...

The purpose for most of the medical experiementation done on live humans was three-fold. The first order of business was to use science and technology to create a "superior Arian race". There were...

Unfortunately, things like this have been with us for at least six thousand years. Just since the end of the Soviet Union there have been multiple incidents in the Balkans, where such massacres...