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
voice quality needs
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
complicated
Love makes everything complicated.
giving praying give-me-strength
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
children guilty
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
powerful love-and-friendship world
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
dark rose humanity
In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
answers found wells
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
suffering mountain may
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
children blue sky
Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
yesterday tomorrow silent
Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
brother fate suffering
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
dream night holocaust
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
men sacred sparks
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
dream book example
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.