Bear Witnness

     “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness” ( Wiesel). I believe this quote is meant to mean, for the people who have died we have have to accept that they are gone and that the awful truth must be told, we must protect the living. I believe bearing witness to something is watching the whole thing unfold. We the living beared witness to the after effects of the Holocaust. One bears witness by accepting the truth in what happened and not avoiding it. This quote does a lot for explaining the Holocaust. It tells people to accept the truth and not try to avoid it. The quote tells us to use what happened as a strength, instead of mourning over it. We have to bear witness to the Holocaust.
~Rory McNabb