Which passage from the Article best supports the idea that Elie Wiesel acted on his belief
that it was important for him to speak up for victims of violence and oppression?
A. In 1988, he established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to explore ways
to address hatred and ethnic conflicts around the world. Wiesel advocated for
Soviet Jews, Nicaraguan Miskito Indians, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims
of famine in Africa, and he was a longtime supporter of Israel, which was
established in 1948 as a Jewish homeland.
B. And Wiesel knew much about violence and oppression, having survived the Nazis'
attempt to conquer Europe during World War II and to annihilate those groups
they considered to be inferior, especially the Jews, in what became known as the
Holocaust.
C. Elie and his father, Shlomo, survived Auschwitz and were later deported to
Buchenwald, another concentration camp, where Shlomo Wiesel died shortly
before the camp was liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945.
D. Born in Sighet, Romania, Elie was just 15 when Nazi Germany invaded his
hometown in 1944. Elie and his family were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi
concentration camp. Elie's arm was tattooed with the serial number A-7713, which
would become his new identity.
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