Collection 5: "After Auschwitz" by Elie Wiesel

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  1. malediction
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
    In this place of darkness and malediction we can but stand in awe and remember its stateless, faceless and nameless victims.
  2. nocturnal
    belonging to or active during the night
    Close your eyes and look: endless nocturnal processions are converging here, and here it is always night.
  3. procession
    the action of a group moving ahead in regular formation
    Close your eyes and look: endless nocturnal processions are converging here, and here it is always night.
  4. converge
    move or draw together at a certain location
    Close your eyes and look: endless nocturnal processions are converging here, and here it is always night.
  5. demented
    affected with madness or insanity
    What kind of demented mind could have invented this system?
  6. blasphemy
    the act of depriving something of its sacred character
    Life was going on where God’s creation was condemned to blasphemy by their killers and their accomplices.
  7. watershed
    an event marking an important historical change of course
    Turning point or watershed, Birkenau produced a mutation on a cosmic scale, affecting man’s dreams and endeavours.
  8. endeavor
    earnest and conscientious activity intended to do something
    Turning point or watershed, Birkenau produced a mutation on a cosmic scale, affecting man’s dreams and endeavours.
  9. fanaticism
    excessive intolerance of opposing views
    Let us reject and oppose more effectively religious fanaticism and racial hate.
  10. morality
    the quality of being in accord with right or good conduct
    Where else can we say to the world “Remember the morality of the human condition,” if not here?
Created on Fri Jun 05 12:14:09 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Jun 08 10:26:00 EDT 2020)

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