Category: Elie Wiesel

During the time of the Holocaust many of the worlds 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…

Introduction: Recognition of human features is a natural process and it affects thinking and how others perceive the world. By removing these human features, the brain cannot process what usually stops one from treating others with dehumanizing disrespect. In 1961, Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, conducted the Milgram experiment which was a test based…

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 werent very close but as they are put into concentration…