Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Summary

I believe that Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Teaches about a great piece of history that should not be forgotten. Elie Wiesel wants to inform his audience of the unbelievable acts of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech is sad and reminiscing. In the speech, Elie speaks of his time in the Holocaust. This makes him sad, because millions died, and he was a witness to the evil. He reminisces over what it was like, and how it happened. One of his quotes was “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides with this. Neutrality helps the oppressor, not the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormentor. Sometimes we must interfere with others. When human lies are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are prosecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”
The people who were involved and the people who created something meaningful and special, like the sculptures and I believe the sculptures captured a great representation of what happened during the Holocaust, The sculpture represents the flame of death that offered the only escape from suffering for the Holocaust victims. Another great representation was the people directly involved in the Holocaust. People like George Pick, Charlene Schiff, Susan Taube, Henry Greenbaum and many more all went through the terrors and horrors of the