A SINGLE STATE SOLUTION
Sunday, 11 February 2007
Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie), born 30 September 1928, is a world-renowned US novelist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Zionist activist. He is the author of over forty books, the most famous of which, Night, is a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust.
Wiesel lives in the United States, where he teaches at Boston University and serves as the chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
Elie Wiesel's life and literary work was profoundly influenced by his Auschwitz experience, which differs from every other eye witness in one major point: the victims were not killed in homicidal gas chambers but, even worse, slowly burned alive in huge open fires.[1]
“Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something there. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load – little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it – saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames. (Is it surprising that I could not sleep after that? Sleep had fled from my eyes.) So this is where we were going. A little farther on was another and larger ditch for adults. […] ‘Father,’ I said, ‘if that is so, I don’t want to wait here. I’m going to run to the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.’”
The French original actually reads “vegetating for hours in the flames,”[2] a description which did not make it into the English translation.
“[…] the flames were gushing out of a tall chimney into the black sky. […] Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames?”,”[3]
Fortunately, Wiesel was saved by a miracle:,”[4]
“Our line had now only fifteen paces to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth chattering. Ten steps still. Eight. Seven. We marched slowly on as though following a hearse at our own funeral. Four more steps. Three steps. There it was now, right in front of us, the pit and its flames. I gathered all that was left of my strength, so that I could break the ranks and throw myself upon the barbed wire. In the depth of my heart I bade farewell to my father, to the whole universe; and, in spite of myself, the words formed themselves and issued a whisper from my lips: Yitgadal veyitkadach shmé raba… May His name be blessed and magnified…. My heart was bursting. The moment had come. I was face to face with the Angel of Death… No. Two steps from the pit we were ordered to turn to the left and made to go into our barracks.”
Elie Wiesel’s testimony on Auschwitz continues to confuse his readers. He describes how, when the Red Army was about to overrun Auschwitz in January 1945, the Germans evacuated the camp, but left it up to the sick inmates to decide whether they wanted to flee with the Germans or await the arrival of the Red Army. Some of Wiesel’s exact words of how he and his father made their decision read as follows:,”[5]
“The choice was in our hands. For once we could decide our fate for ourselves. We could both stay in the hospital, where I could, thanks to my doctor, get him [the father] entered as a patient or nurse. Or else we could follow the others. ‘Well, what shall we do, father?’ He was silent. ‘Let’s be evacuated with the others,’ I told him.”
For years Elie Wiesel and his father had been living in hell, where people had been burned alive in masses. The living inmates had been abused and mistreated with all methods one can think of. Then early 1945 there was a chance to flee from the clutches of these mass murderers and to be liberated by the advancing Russians. And how did they decide? They decided to flee from their liberators with their diabolic mass murderers. They decided to remain slave workers in the hell created by the evil Germans. They decided to reach out for the uncertainty of the cold and dark night under the guard of their German Satans. It seems that Elie Wiesel and his father feared the liberation by the Red Army more than they feared what ever the Germans or what ever fate would do to them when fleeing.
This was not a single case, as supported with statements by Primo Levi. In his entry of January 17, 1945, Levi writes in his book Survival in Auschwitz, how he would have followed common instincts and would have joined the other inmates that fled with the SS, if only he had not been so sick:[6]
“It was not a question of reasoning: I would probably also have followed the instinct of the flock if I had not felt so weak: fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.”
The fear he writes about here is the one that drove the inmates – he talks about the instinct of the flock – and which drove them to flee with the Germans. It seems that both Wiesel and Levi did not really fear the Germans. It does not appear like they longed for the liberation by the Russians and would have done anything to get away from the Germans. And Levi even gives us the result of this referendum by feet: 800 mostly incapacitated inmates decided to stay in Auschwitz, but 20,000 others joined the National Socialist mass murderers.
Footnotes
[1] E. Wiesel, Night, Hill and Wang, New York 1960, p. 30
[2] E. Wiesel, La Nuit, éditions de minuit, Paris 1958, p. 58f.
[3] E. Wiesel, op. cit (note 1), pp. 25, 28.
[4] Ibid. p. 31
[5] Ibid. p. 78
[6] P. Levi, Survival in
Auschwitz, Summit Books, New York 1986
Source: Ziopedia
See also Elie Wiesel and the Big Lie, and Defender of the Jewish State; Denier of Palestinian Misery, and the latest