AP European History Practice Test 2, Section I, Part A (^) ‹ 263
- What did Wiesel believe about the current gen-
eration of Germans?
A. They shared their ancestors’ guilt for the
Holocaust.
. B They had a responsibility to remember the
Holocaust.
C. They shared in the responsibility for the
Holocaust.
D. They had no responsibility where the
Holocaust was concerned. - Why did Wiesel assert that remembering the
Holocaust was important?
A. It was necessary for the German people to
become reconciled to their own history.
. B It hindered the healing process for the
German people.
C. It would ensure that it never occurred again.
D. It would allow the Jews to forgive the
German people.
Questions 54 and 55 refer to the passage below.As a Jew, I have never believed in collective guilt. Only the guilty were guilty.
Children of killers are not killers but children. I have neither the desire nor the authority to judge today’s genera-
tion for the unspeakable crimes committed by the generation of Hitler.
But we may—and we must—hold it responsible, not for the past, but for the way it remembers the past. And
for what it does with the memory of the past. In remembering, you will help your own people vanquish the ghosts
that hover over its history. Remember: a community that does not come to terms with the dead will continue to
traumatize the living.
We remember Auschwitz and all that it symbolizes because we believe that, in spite of the past and its horrors,
the world is worthy of salvation; and salvation, like redemption, can be found only in memory.
Elie Wiesel, “Reflections of a Survivor,” 198726_Bartolini_QuesPrac2_243-268.indd 263 27/04/18 10:17 AM