Holocaust Literary InspirationWhy do survivors of such a tragic event as the Holocaust want to remember these horrible times by writing about memories that most people do not would just like to forget? I will show, as Weisel said, and as others have written, that victims of the Holocaust wrote about their experiences not only to preserve the history of the event, but also so that those who were not involved and those who survived can understand. what really happened. They wanted the people of the world to realize how viciously they were being treated. In addition to wanting us to understand, they also want to understand why this happened. Why did the Lord allow this to happen? Why have the people of the world stood by and allowed such a thing to happen to so many people? Today, in the 1990s, we cannot imagine letting so many people suffer, as those seven million people did in the mid-1940s. Perhaps the most recognized writer of the Holocaust is Elie Wiesel. He was taken from his home and sent to concentration camps when he was still a young boy. Wiesel once said: “I write to understand as much as to be understood.” He was released in 1945 and, once freed, "he imposed a ten-year vow of silence before attempting to describe what had happened to him and more than six million other Jews." . In a lecture on the dimensions of the Holocaust, Wiesel's "The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration" is a contradiction in terms. As in everything else, Auschwitz denies all systems, destroys all doctrines. They can only impoverish the experience that lies beyond our reach. ""How can one write about a situation that goes beyond its very description? How can one write a novel about the Holocaust...... middle of paper ......took for her to survive the death camps. Wiesel, Elie Dimensions of the Holocaust. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, This is a book about a series of lectures given at Northwestern University by Mr. Wiesel and several other Holocaust experts and survivors. Wiesel, Elie One Generation After. This is a novel by probably the most famous writer on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel. Here he asks the question why? As he tries to understand a world that God has abandoned. Wiesel, Elie. “Always stay together.” Newsweek January 16, 1995. InfoTrac Database. Access to information. September 15, 1999. Wiesel recounts his last days in Auschwitz and his struggle to stay with his father. Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantum Books, 1960. This book gives a horrific account of the Holocaust. This book won Wiesel the Nobel Peace Prize.