Wiesel begins his famous speech with a memory of D. The day he was freed from a concentration camp. Back then, he was a young boy freed from Buchenwald by American soldiers. Even though he didn't understand their language, he noticed their rage at what they saw there. And he was grateful because of that rage - it showed that they cared and were not indifferent. The dangers of indifference to other people's suffering are the topic of this speech.
