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His organization is effective in that he reminds his listeners in both the introduction and conclusion that he was once a frightened a confused victim of genocide. All of this had happened to him when he was fifteen years old, and arrived in Auschwitz from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains, having no real idea of what this place was or what his true fate was going to be. For the Nazis, he and his father only existed to perform slave labor at the Buna factories at Auschwitz until they were starved or worked to death. Only later did he learn that Britain and America knew about this camp by 1944 and did nothing, and he uses this example as a moral warning that President Bill Clinton was correct not to stand aside in Kosovo and allow genocide to occur there. This is what led him to reflect on the profound question of indifference in the face of suffering and persecution, which is the central point of his speech: why do the good people stand aside and do nothing while the perpetrators of genocide carry on with impunity?

3) Verbal Signposts

All the main verbal signposts of the speech center on the theme of indifference in the face of suffering and death, and that in the case of the Jews even God seen to have abandoned them and cared nothing about their fate. These questions of why the outside world seemed so silent and indifferent to the genocide of the Jews have haunted Wiesel his entire life, for obvious reasons, and he organizes his speech around these central themes. Perhaps God simply did not care, and "we felt that to be abandoned by God was worse than to be punished by Him. Better an unjust God than an indifferent one" (Wiesel 1999). In his novel Night, God does not hear the prayers of the millions who are being annihilated, while justice, morality and even meaning are absent in a world where the Nazis have absolute power over