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Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young jewish boy from a small town in the carpathian mountains woke up, not far from goethe's beloved weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called buchenwald. he was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. he thought there never would be again. liberated a day earlier by american soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. and even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know that they, too, would remember, and bear witness. elie wiesel, "the perils of indifference," 1999 in the introduction of "the perils of indifference," how does wiesel appeal directly to his u. s. audience? a. he reprimands the other countries who refused to do anything to him or the jewish people. b. he the u. s. soldiers for their sacrifices in to free him from the concentration camp. c. he talks about the horrors he witnessed as a young child in the concentration camps. d. he asks for the united states' in tracking down the men who were responsible for the holocaust.

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