No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a manâ€™s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel. Read the text and study the images from Spiegelmanâ€™s Maus. Which theme is addressed in both excerpts? Inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding. Itâ€™s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance. Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them. There are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.

In All Rivers Run To The Sea, Elie Weisel talks about the horrors of the Holocaust that discriminated and annihilated millions of Jewish people. The detailed narration of the holocaust and it's outcome has been and still is one of the most famous genocide in the history of humanity.

The given excerpt from the book tells of how one is incapable of understanding the full extend of the sufferings the Jews faced during that period. He seems to suggest that some truths, even though painful and powerful they may be, are too difficult to fathom by anyone who has no experience of it. He rather stated "Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination".