Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
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It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.
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I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit, and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.