Question

Question 5 of 20

2 Points
Click to read a passage from "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel. Then
answer the question.
Which excerpt provides evidence that the United States knew about the Nazi
concentration camps?
A. If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved
heaven and earth to intervene.
I must say it –
B. And, nevertheless, his image in Jewish history
his image in Jewish history is flawed.
C. The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point. Sixty years
ago, its human cargo — nearly 1,000 Jews
nearly 1,000 Jews – was turned back to
Nazi Germany
D. And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that
Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets​

Answer 1

C. The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point. Sixty years

ago, its human cargo — nearly 1,000 Jews

nearly 1,000 Jews – was turned back to

Nazi Germany

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt from "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel that provides evidence that the United States knew about the Nazi concentration camps was C. The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point. Sixty years

ago, its human cargo — nearly 1,000 Jews nearly 1,000 Jews – was turned back to Nazi Germany.

Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor, Nobel laurete and political activist and he is popular for writing about his ordeals as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

According to him, in the society where they existed, there were three simple categories: the killers, victims and bystanders. He said that the only consolation the prisoners in the concentration camps had was that they thought that the inhumane treatment and prisons were a closely guarded secret that the leaders of the free world did not know about.

"And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew."