Category: Elie Wiesel

“A new survey by the Azrieli Foundation and Claims Conference finds, in April of 2018, an alarming 52% of millennials cannot name at least one concentration camp or ghetto, and nearly one quarter, or 22%, of millennials have not heard, or are not sure, if they have heard of the Holocaust” (Azrieli). The danger of…

Trial of God by Elie Wiesel is a representation of both a religious question of why a perfect and honest being allows evil and suffering in the world he created? Why would loving and just God allow his chosen people to suffer. While it is written as a Purim Shpiel based on a real event,…

“ Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander ” (Yehuda Bauer- Holocaust Historian). In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the book shows how in the beginning Elie and his father weren’t very close but as they are put into concentration…

During the time of the Holocaust many of the world’s nations decided not to respond and almost seemed to ignore the fact that these tragedies that were starting in Germany were happening. The first example is the involvement of the United States during the Holocaust. The first politician that had found out about the actions…