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Wiesel lectures that the ‘secret’ of Auschwitz’s ‘truth lies in silence.’ Rationally comprehending The Holocaust amounts, in this view, to denying it. For rationality denies The Holocaust’s uniqueness and mystery. And to compare The Holocaust with the sufferings of others constitutes, for Wiesel, a ‘total betrayal of Jewish history’