Night
Do We Really Remember?
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." These are the words of Eliezar (Elie) Wiesel during his Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1986. Eliezar was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, a border town between Hungary and Romania. Wiesel grew up in the town's Jewish section, where his father, Shlomo, was a shopkeeper and a well-respected leader in the Jewish community. In the spring of 1944, when Elie was only fifteen years old, the Germans deported 15,000 Jews from Sighet to the notorious concentration camp, Auschwitz. Until his father's death in Buchenwald, Wiesel and his father were together throughout their internment. Elie was a witness to the genocide of Jews. He writes about his experiences in his novel, Night.
Genocide is defined as the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. We live in a time of unparalleled instances of genocide and......
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