Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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Source 1: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Elie Wiesel)

Conflict: Elie Wiesel is a Jew that was sent to two different concentration camps. Fortunately, he survived both concentration camps, but all his family members and friends where left behind.

What Happened: Several years after the end of the Holocaust, Wiesel was accepted as the honor to represent the Jews as a whole, and accept the Noble Peace Prize. He delivered a powerful message of "peace, atonement, and human dignity to humanity." He urged us to keep the memory alive and never to forget about the Holocaust. Wiesel wants to make sure that something like this would not ever happen again. He even emphasized the fact that humans should give attention to stop persecution and to never remain …show more content…
When she was in High School, her Nazi teachers taught them that Hitler helped Germany achieve greatness, fortune, and prosperity. Though, Sophie Scholl had her own opinions and started to grow away from the political views of her classmates and teachers.

What Happened: Sophie Scholl stood for what she believed and would often write letters to her boyfriend, Fritz, and write about her political views in her diary. She started to start feeling stuck in high school and stopped participating in her class. She knew that what the Germans were doing was not correct and she felt alienated because she could not confide in a classmate or teacher. She decided to follow her own thoughts and believed that others should do the same. These details reveal her attitude, and told us that she stood for what she believed in.

Source 3: The Diary of Anne Frank (Miep Gies)

Conflict: Miep Gies, was one of the Germans who had the choice if she wanted to hid Anne Frank, her family, and four other Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during the

Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Wiesel speaks out to people in a way that just makes sense, seeming as moral principles Wiesel uses language with building ideas to help people understand and agree with his message out to the audience in a way that is just morally right. Wiesel uses this type of language when stating that “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” here Wiesel makes the statement that is something for the audience…

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Argumentative Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

history that affects everyone. “Night,” by Elie Wiesel sheds light on the trials Elie faces as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Due to his Holocaust experiences, Elie Wiesel learns many positive lessons to advocate human rights, such as peace, the vitality of memory, and the value of never being silent. The Holocaust teaches Elie Wiesel a major part of human rights, peace, through his personal experiences. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Wiesel says, “Violence is not the answer. Terrorism…

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Rhetorical Analysis On Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel went through an inhumane oppression during his lifetime, more specifically his childhood. Wiesel lived in the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, where he and his father endured suffering unlike any other. Wiesel’s father stayed neutral to the Nazi invasion, as well as people outside of his country staying neutral to what is happening to him and other helpless souls. Wiesel knew personally what it was like to not receive help, and wished to urge others to help people in situations…

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Standing Up To Oppressors

and Elie Wiesel have shown people that standing up to oppressors all the while keeping a positive attitude is a great way to deal with conflict. However; other individuals claim that talking to other people and keeping a positive attitude is the best way to resolve a conflict. Nevertheless, helping other people by standing up to an oppressor is in fact the best way to respond to a conflict. Finding peaceful resolutions, even when faced by autocrats is beneficial for people.…

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Human Rights In Elie Wiesel's Night

massacred. Several nations across the world assembled together to form the UDHR which will safeguard basic rights that were granted for every human. They incorporate the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, titled “Night”, he recounts his suffering faced as an inmate during the holocaust such as witnessing a child being hanged, nearly having his leg amputated, and being forced to let his father die. Many human rights were violated throughout the memoir…

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Elie Wiesel Interpretive Response

Mrs. Martinez Elie Wiesel, as an author reflecting back on his life, believes that God is not dead. His Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech included a prayer, “blessed be thou… for giving us life for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day”. I think Elie knows the only true one who freed him and the other Jews could be none other than God himself. As the book said before it could be a test of faith. He passed the test, even though he did doubt God. Elie, as a kid going through…

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The Importance Of The Holocaust

against one another. Again Elie Wiesel has a quote from his novel Night that will help drive this home, “All of a sudden this pleasant and intelligent young man had changed. His eyes shining with greed.” (Wiesel, 55). The background for this quote is this. He was stationed at a labor camp with a lot of polish workers and one of them was very kind to everyone. But he found out that Elie had a gold crown. As he found this out he would mercilessly beat Elie's father until Elie gave up and gave him the…

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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel effectively uses setting, narration, and dialogue from an experience to convey his message of, “Violence is not the answer,” (118). In the text, Wiesel reflects on his horrific experience in the holocaust from beginning to end explaining the torture he had to go through both physically and mentally. Towards the end of the book, the story jumps ahead to December 10, 1986, when Wiesel delivers his acceptance speech for The Nobel Peace Prize, stating, “Never to be silent whenever…

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