Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech Essay

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”-Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust is one of the worst Genocides in world history. None of those Jews deserved to suffer to death. So many people lost their lives and to what, so the Germans and Hitler can feel proud of themselves. Jews deserved to have remembrance. “How naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent.” - Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech. For something so wrong, so many people watched by doing nothing. According to Elie Wiesel’s “ The Perils of Indifference” Speech, And, we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon Knew, the state department knew.” So the whole United States knew and didn’t want to do anything. Our own country and we just sat there and watched as it went on. There were boats coming into the United States
That’s only that ones that are documented for, there are probably thousands more. This is way too many innocent lives that are now gone forever. There were soviet civilians that were killed, around seven million were murdered for absolutely no reason. Hitler just wanted to eliminate the Jews, but that doesn’t explain why there are 2 million non-Jewish people that were killed. Hitler and the other Germans thought that people with disabilities were worthless of life so they took up to 250,000 lives of people with disabilities. That is way too many lives that were taken, just because Hitler didn’t like them. “ It is not truth that matters, but victory.” Said Hitler. We need to change this forever. The Holocaust taught us that we need to remember the ones that we have lost. It is important that we do remember them because if we don't it will happen again. The Holocaust is one of the worst things that has happened in Human history. We all have lost someone important to us. We don’t want any more innocent lives to be taken for their own religion and faith. As Elie Wiesel said, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second