What is Your Responsibility to Others?

Your Responsibility:  Understand where Elie is now, given where he was at in Night.  Discover how human he has become because of his experience during the Holocaust.  To begin understanding what your responsibility is to others, not just those around you, think how these words you will read and hear impact the world today.

Go to http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200011/omag_200011_elie.jhtml Listen to Oprah’s interview with Elie.  Go through all three excerpts.  Then, provide deep, wondering answers to the following questions.

1. How do you think Elie got through hell without hating?
2. What do you think being able to love has to do with Elie’s being human?
3. Why does Elie try to stop atrocities, crimes against humanity?
4. What would Elie say about racial discrimination?  About prejudice?
5. What is the importance in questions?

Then, read this transcript: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200011/omag_200011_elie_b.jhtml  Then provide deep, wondering answers to the following questions. 

1. What do you think it means to LIVE for Elie?
2. What does it take to believe in God after such an experience in life?

Read a transcript of Elie’s interview with Jerry Fowler on genocide.

http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/podcasts/index.php?content=podcast.php%232006-02-03

Answer the following questions.

1. In your own words, what does it mean to “bear witness”?
2. What does it mean to hate?

Read Elie’s speech: “The Perils of Indifference.”  Then answer the following questions.  http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm

1. In your own words, what does it mean to be indifferent?
2. Why is it dangerous to be indifferent?

Finally, reflect on these two questions and provide deep answers:

1. What is a crime against humanity?
2. What should your personal response be to crimes against humanity?