{"id":3495,"date":"2016-07-07T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2016-07-10T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:06:57","slug":"the-passing-of-a-soul-and-the-worlds-conscience-elie-wiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/the-passing-of-a-soul-and-the-worlds-conscience-elie-wiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"The passing of a soul and the world\u2019s conscience: Elie Wiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Tom Brennan,<\/p>\n

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Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel<\/p><\/div>\n

A quiet but great voice is silent. A young boy who spent his childhood in a death camp waiting for Nazi \u201csupermen\u201d to select him for death survived and told the world what he saw, lived through and remembered. Today Holocaust survivors are aging and dying. They outlived the supermen and women who considered them \u201cuntermenschen (sub-human). My BA degree is in history, not the more touchy-feely, pluralistic and tolerant social studies (play nice with others, everything is just wonderful type studies). I grew up just after WW2 and was very familiar with what had just ended: a battle of good against evil. Nazism was a demonic and outright satanic force that came close to overwhelming the world. The survivors of the Holocaust can tell us firsthand what evil is. Several comments strike me forcefully here. The banality of evil, a term used by Hannah Arendt to describe the attitude of the Nazi technocrats and bureaucrats causes me wonder. How could the systematic and very organized processing of human beings into death camps and \u201crecycling\u201d of their property and even gold fillings in their teeth, be taken so matter of factly? How could the German people, Lutherans and Catholics quietly consent to it?<\/p>\n

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