Question

Elie Wiesel said: “I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer—or my life, period—would not have become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory.” Why is there a moral element to this “remembering”?

Answer 1

It might be said that he felt responsibility because of the knowledge he had, that is why, he wrote Night. It seems that if he did not tell what he knew and kept silence, he would let the Nazis win another victory. he needed to voice what he had witnessed and experienced because it that way he might prevent some future immoral act.