Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the summer of 1944, as a teenager in Hungary, Elie Wiesel, along with his father, mother and sisters, were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz extermination camp in occupied Poland. Upon arrival there, Wiesel and his father were selected by SS Dr. Josef Mengele for slave labor and wound up at the nearby Buna rubber factory. Daily life included starvation rations of soup and bread, brutal discipline, and a constant struggle against overwhelming despair. At one point, young Wiesel received 25 lashes of the whip for a minor infraction. In January 1945, as the Russian Army drew near, Wiesel and his father were hurriedly evacuated from Auschwitz by a forced march to Gleiwitz and then via an open train car to Buchenwald in Germany, where his father, mother, and a younger sister eventually died. Wiesel was liberated by American troops in April 1945. After the war, he moved to Paris and became a journalist then later settled in New York. Since 1976, he has been Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. He has received numerous awards and honors including the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was also the Founding Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial. Wiesel has written over 40 books including Night, a harrowing chronicle of his Holocaust experience, first published in 1960. At the White House lecture, Wiesel was introduced by Hillary Clinton who stated, "It was more than a year ago that I asked Elie if he would be willing to participate in these Millennium Lectures...I never could have imagined that when the time finally came for him to stand in this spot and to reflect on the past century and the future to come, that we would be seeing children in Kosovo crowded into trains, separated from families, separated from their homes, robbed of their childhoods, their memories, their humanity.
A knock was heard from below, everyone was quiet and scared. Mr Frank opened the door and it was Kleiman, he explained that he tried to protect them but the Nazi’s didn’t believe him. On August 4th, 1944, the nine people who lived in the secret Annex were arrested. They were asked if they wanted to take some of their belongings, but Anne leaves her diary in hopes that it would soon be published
In the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth, the author compares the daffodils that he is seeing to stars. He tells us that the daffodils looked like stars on the milky way. Moreover, he personifies them by saying that they were "tossing their heads." The mood that is created in the text is one of happiness and relaxation.
<em>Continuous as the stars that shine</em>
<em>And twinkle on the milky way,</em>
<em>They stretched in never-ending line</em>
<em>Along the margin of a bay:</em>
<em>Ten thousand saw I at a glance,</em>
<em>Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.</em>
