If the story you are referring to is "The Great Gatsby", it might be said that Nick learned that she is a dishonest woman because she cheated to win the golf tournament. She might be considered a compulsive liar and she seemed to assume that everyone was like her,
Explanation:
the moral of the story is that power corrupts.
Macbeth decides that he does deserve to be kind, because the witchest put the idea in his head
What Wiesel means is that it would be a crime to forget. By forgetting the actions of the Nazis, we are contributing to the pain caused. If we forget we are letting the Nazis get away with what they did without facing any consequences