Kaley Schnell

English 0097

Mrs, Green

10/04/22

Elie Wisel Speech

What would you do if your rights were taken, family, freedom, and your life; that was a

reality for 1.1 million victims including Elie Wiesel; a holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel produced

a speech The Perils Of Indiffernce; that discribs the harsh camps. Around the world, there are

many camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Ethiopia, etc; that are filled with prisoners of cruelty

and violence. These camps dehumanize these people's culture and beliefs; it destroys the

community around them. Millions of prisoners lost their sense of gratitude and hope; they

become angered and filled with hatred. Elie Wiesel shares his experience and information with

the president and community of human events in hope of impact. There's devaluing; that comes

with indifference through unjustifiable times.

You worship God, you believe him to be there to protect and guide; then he abanded you

to root. In Elies speech he qoutes“ They no longer felt pain, hunger, thirst. They feared nothing.

They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know.” Jews were followers of God; millions of

prisoners put their hope into God including Elise Wiesel, however, they felt being abandoned by

God was worse than being punished by him. People living in the camps were no longer Human

beings they were “the killers, the victims, and the bystanders”. Elie Wiels shares how Mrs.

Clinton claims we are in “The Days of Remembrance”; he's grateful for the statement, but it can't

undo the trauma; it can't undo the past, but hopefully will impact the future.
 What brings you gratitude; Elie Wiesel cherishes gratitude; it defines your humanity. In

his speech Elie goes into detal on the importance of gratitude. All around the world; gratitude is

lost; millions of homeless children are victims of injustice. Elie says “The political prisoner in

his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees not to respond to their plight, not to relieve

their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.” Elie

Wiesel wanted to inform the government about the indifference and unfairness of the cruelty

happening behind their eyes. Many Civilians just focus on themselves; how they woke up late for

work or how they did not charge their phones; there blinded by the violence and cruelty around

them. Elie Wiesel wants people to see what happened or what's happing around them and inform

the public and congress to not forget or abandon.

How can you forget a big group of people, of children and family; what events lead to

indifference. Elie wants to inform people in his speech “Indifference elicits no response.

Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end”. So let's talk about

how indifference began for Elie Wiesel; he's a young Jewish boy who grew up in Carpathian.

Later “In 1944, he and his family were deported to Auschwitz. Only he and two of his three

sisters survived the Holocaust (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)”.Imagine you lost

family; it's devastating, but way more happened to these prisoners, curl labor, lack of food

resources, punishment, and death.

Dehumanizing; punishment and violence due to indifference, change communities and

citizens around us; this is Elie main focus of this speech. For many people like Elie Wiesel the

PSD and suffering he went through impacted him greatly; what he chose to do with these

emotions impacted people worldwide. His speech impacted the president and congress, as well

as us today. He used his trauma and others' stories to speak out about the injustice in the system.
As well as the speech he presented he went on to produce “57 books, written mostly in French

and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the

Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps(Wikimedia Foundation).” He died on July 2,

2016, but even after his death, his legacy will go on, and his story and others will be heard.

Work Cited

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/elie-wiesel.

“Elie Wiesel.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Sept. 2022,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel.