Question

What are the obligations that wiesel suggests the holocaust gives to humanity

Answer 1

Answer:

The obligations that holocaust gave to humanity was that the humanity punished itself.

Explanation:

Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Prize winner and a Boston University professor. He was born on Sept. 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania. He was a Holocaust survivor. Having experienced the holocaust, he was led to use this experience to influence people through his writings. He worked to defend human rights and bring peace throughout the world. In 1978, he was appointed as a Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust and founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 1980.

Wiesel in his interview with Oprah says,

"WIESEL: No, no. I believe the Holocaust was a unique event. A unique event with universal implications and applications. But I also believe, somehow, irrationally, mystically, that all these tragedies now, all these catastrophes, the human catastrophes are a consequence of what happened then 60 years ago. At that time, there was so much hatred in the world. And it overflowed. And it went overboard. And it takes sometimes one, two, or three generations for humanity to realize what went on then.

And what I wanted to say to the children that humanity punished itself that it allowed the crimes to be committed against my people, and beyond my people to (inaudible)."

According to this statement of Wiesel, he asserted that it was humanity itself that punished humanity during the holocaust.

Answer 2

Answer:

The obligations suggested by Wiesel that holocaust gives to humanity was that, there are implications and consequences for whatever humanity does.

Explanation:

Elie Wiesel was one of the holocaust survivors. This experience geared him to influence people by writing. He declared that it is a high level of hatred and inhumanity among humans to punish themselves by allowing crimes to be committed against the people.

The Holocaust was a unique event that depict the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germans and its collaborators.

Thus, holocaust reveals that there are implications and consequences for all human behaviors.