Silent Book Night

camp had taken Elie’s humanity away from him and left him with a wall of silence and a shadow of himself. Elie is not the only one that is left in silence while witnessing trauma. The rest of the inmates also are left in silences as an inmate is being hanged right before the whole camps eyes. As the inmate hung from the rope, the rest of the camp remained silent as they were forced to watch the life drain from the man’s eye. They remained silent, in horror as well as fear.

The Holocaust took a lot from the prisoners, and left the survivors with walls of silence that they carried with them for the rest of their life. The tattoos that were branded on them left silent reminders of the traumas they had faced. They remained silent of what had occurred,

And two, what they had endured was unspeakable. Society had a difficult time accepting the traumatic events that happened at the concentration camp or believing them to be true. Society did not believe that humanity was capable of such horrors. That or they were unaware of the events that occurred keeping it silent..

Due to the silent presence that was influenced by society, Holocaust victims remained silent. As Carl Kidron states based on his interview with Holocaust survivors children, “The deep, repressed selves of the survivor and the descendant and their Holocaust past would become fully present on the surface of the social context only when the silenced or the “unsayable” had be publicly articulated, (Kidron).” Not only had the Holocaust left the survivors with an inner silence presence, but society was also placing a unspeakable pressure on the survivors as well. The Holocaust was one of the worst events in history, and the horrors that occurred to the prisoners of the concentration camps were unimaginable. People had a hard time understanding what had happened at these camps and found it unbelievable. As Gates-Madsen describes in their book (INSERT BOOK HERE) how the horrors of the Holocaust were