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"I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament.

On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the ac-
cused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a

world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was
nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this

Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the
midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer,
a stranger."

This goes along with my theme and justifies why people stopped speaking up. many people were tired of not only speaking for themselves, but those who stayed silent.

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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned
my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose
bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.

Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for-
ever.

Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me
for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God
and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to
live as long as God Himself.
Never."

This quote goes along with my theme because it directly states the horrific things that happened. It shows that the people who did speak up weren't crazy. Many people shamed those who spoke up and convinced them nothing was wrong.

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This represents all the people who stayed silent. Even after knowing the horrible things occurring.

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"I maintain therefore that this personal record, coming as it
does after so many others and describing an abomination such as

we might have thought no longer had any secrets for us, is differ-
ent, distinct, and unique nevertheless. The fate of the Jews of the

small town in Transylvania called Sighet; their blindness as they
confronted a destiny from which they would have still had time
to flee; the inconceivable passivity with which they surrendered

to it, deaf to the warnings and pleas of a witness who, having es-
caped the massacre, relates to them what he has seen with his

own eyes, but they refuse to believe him and call him a mad-

man—this set of circumstances would surely have sufficed to in-
spire a book to which, I believe, no other can be compared."

This shows the way people were so blind and uneducated about the events happening during the holocaust. They ignored every little thing that didn't directly affect them and it backfired when there was nobody left to speak up for them.

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You can apply many themes from the holocaust to life today. There is so much to learn from every bad experience in life. I believe something good always comes out of the past. Even something as horrendous as the holocaust will have long lasting good effects on humanity as a whole. People can learn that its important to advocate for yourself and speak up when you see unfairness in the world. If you believe in something be passionate and don't let anyone push you around or manipulate you if you truly feel the things going on are negative.

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How can one person make a difference in his/her society?

One singular person can make a difference by being vocal. Speaking up for things they believe are wrong and spreading awareness to prevent it from continuing to happen.

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This represents they way that nobody was left to speak up for anyone in the end. 

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Elie's transformation relates to the theme because in the end he releases this book about the holocaust educating others on what happened. If him and those around him would've spoken up maybe he wouldn't have to write this book telling us the horrific things he witnessed and experienced.

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"That particular morning, the young Jew who came to inter-
view me on behalf of a Tel Aviv daily won me over from the first

moment. Our conversation very quickly became more personal.

Soon I was sharing with him memories from the time of the Occu-
pation. It is not always the events that have touched us personally

that affect us the most. I confided to my young visitor that noth-
ing I had witnessed during that dark period had marked me as

deeply as the image of cattle cars filled with Jewish children at
the Austerlitz train station...Ye t I did not even see them with

my own eyes. It was my wife who described them to me, still un-
der the shock of the horror she had felt. At that time we knew

nothing about the Nazis' extermination methods. And who could
have imagined such things! But these lambs torn from their
mothers, that was an outrage far beyond anything we would have

thought possible. I believe that on that day, I first became aware
of the mystery of the iniquity whose exposure marked the end of
an era and the beginning of another. The dream conceived by
Western man in the eighteenth century, whose dawn he thought

he had glimpsed in 1789, and which until August 2, 1914, had be-
come stronger with the advent of the Enlightenment and scien-
tific discoveries—that dream finally vanished for me before those

trainloads of small children. And yet I was still thousands of miles
away from imagining that these children were destined to feed
the gas chambers and crematoria."

This quote goes along with my theme and shows that people weren't only silent because they were scared, but because they were ignorant. Nobody knew what was truly going on. It was basically out of sight, out of mind to them.

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"It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices

waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and chil-
dren, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tra-
dition, therefore Jewish memory.

CONVINCED THAT THIS PERIOD in history would be judged
one day, I knew that I must bear witness. I also knew that, while

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them.

Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly as lan-
guage became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be neces-
sary to invent a new language. But how was one to rehabilitate

and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?
Hunger—thirst—fear—transport—selection—fire—chimney:
these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they
meant something else. Writing in my mother tongue—at that
point close to extinction—I would pause at every sentence, and
start over and over again. I would conjure up other verbs, other
images, other silent cries. It still was not right. But what exactly
was "it"? "It" was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of
being usurped, profaned. All the dictionary had to offer seemed

meager, pale, lifeless. Was there a way to describe the last jour-
ney in sealed cattle cars, the last voyage toward the unknown? Or

the discovery of a demented and glacial universe where to be in-
human was human, where disciplined, educated men in uniform

came to kill, and innocent children and weary old men came to

die? Or the countless separations on a single fiery night, the tear-
ing apart of entire families, entire communities? Or, incredibly,

the vanishing of a beautiful, well-behaved little Jewish girl with
golden hair and a sad smile, murdered with her mother the very
night of their arrival? How was one to speak of them without
trembling and a heart broken for all eternity?"

To me, this quote goes along with the theme because it shows the way people were so scared to speak up for themselves. They felt so trapped and conflicted about what to do. I also believe that things would've ended differently if people would've come forward and spoken up, however, I don't blame them for the history of what happened with the Holocaust.

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I believe the theme of this book is to stand up for what you believe is right.