“History is to the community as memory is to the individual.” A.Marwick. Why should we study history?

What is the purpose of suffering? In this article, I explore this question and then present a passage from Elie Wiesel’s powerful book Night that eloquently and powerfully expresses this question.

About the integrity of mankind, qualiying a quote from Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

Though some have denied that Holocaust ever happened, it is certainly real in the lives of those who experienced its horrors first hand. There are innumerable people, particularly the Jews, who have suffered terribly under the German Nazi regime and survived. Many were resilient enough to pick up the pieces and went on to achieve greatness in their chosen endeavors.

Elie is a boy that lives with his father, mother, and sister in Transylvania. Their town was turned in to a ghetto by the Nazi’s and they were sent to live in it.

Although Elie Wiesel and Oskar Schindler came from very diverse backgrounds, both of these men are responsible for not only saving the lives of Jews during WWII but also for chronicling their struggles against the Nazis.