HOLOCAUST: THE DARK, SERIOUS ATROCITY AND DIFFUSION OF RACIAL HATRED

Eliezer Wiesel, a bewildered, anguished, young survivor, evaded the slaughter of six
million Jews, but experienced a long way to find light and restoration of a normal life. The cruel
challenges Eliezer endured was the brutality the Nazis committed in the concentration camps.
He knew resistance wouldn't help him, but only exacerbate the problem. Remaining under the
power and control of the Nazis was only logical. His depiction of his time during the holocaust
was in a novel. His memoir is simply titled, ​Night​.
Auschwitz. Concentration Camp. In Poland. Network of Extermination Camps. Built and
Operated by Nazi Germany. A traumatizing plight for the fearful Jews.
Victims taken away from their home, family, and friends, and had been under the
operation of Nazi Germany. They were profoundly commanded until death or perished of
hunger, diseases, dehumanization, humanity being stripped, animalistic behavior towards each
other rather than comforting one another, and left famished for the scorching sun to burn. A
spectacle that really saddened me was page 52 when Eliezer still had his life, and in “his” life,
the only things that mattered to him were his daily scarce pittances of soup and stale bread, if
that, maybe even a less sufficient amount.That was his life, just a stomach living in a body.
Prisoners were understandably preoccupied majorly by food in the concentration camp. It was a
life or death situation, wait nevermind, just death. All people who died carried great dreams and
aspirations. There came a point where all Jewish people knew they shared the same destiny as
the other, the fiery altar where Jewish people and future dreams were sacrificed. Terrifying
events emerged rapidly. A young boy asked his father a question, “Can this be true? This is the
twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed?” My
question is, how could the world remain silent while HUMAN BEINGS endure suffering,
oppression, and torment. Human lives who lost their dignity were endangered and became
irrelevant to the rest of the world. The Jewish people were left hopeless, endangered, hungry,
anguished, and their lives not belonging to them anymore. The purpose of this is to explain how
the events that occurred in Night still occur today through genocide, bias, and discrimination.

The experiences of genocide right now is a intercommunal issue conflict between the
Shiites and the Sunnis supported by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan(battlegrounds of the
ongoing war). The killing and violence the Shiites are receiving is overwhelming. The ethnic
cleansing and genocide is perpetuated by religion, in which the Shiites are considered
apostates. Their logic comes from Takfiri, a description or accusation of who is a true Muslim
and who is not. The propensity of violence and the inciting of hatred dispersed throughout the
countries against the Shiites is a problem. Yes, this is a reality today. Even though I’m not
included in the genocide, questions from me arouse just like the boy in Night. These are
humans we are talking about. How can this still be true during these times.

We all must think equal opportunities exist and we all live in a egalitarian society, if we
haven’t noticed bias exists today. Today, as a society, people form negative, threatening views
about other groups, prejudice. Hitler formed his own propaganda by stereotyping them and
putting fear in the eyes of the Jews. His persistence for his racial inequality was pervasive in
society, then. The discrimination, bias, and hostility towards the Jews had me feeling ghastly.
Jews were not accepted and that “policy” spread and molded their culture. Yes, bias and
discrimination too, still exist today. It’s real and is everywhere right now.

In America, we haven’t really reached a point where we can really talk about racism and
racial bias, especially in the criminal justice system. A solution shall be to talk about crises like,
persecution because of race and religion, apartheid, isolation, interminable imprisonment, exile,
suffering violated rights, violence, and racism, in educational environments, like schools. And I
with that said, I after soaking up the horrific life of Jews, I am obligated to speak up and speak
out.