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
hate killing
Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
memories ends source
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
differences people holocaust
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.
life power evil
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
war holocaust bears
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
betrayal betrayed betray
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
mistake army order
The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.
writing order sculpture
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
war night said
War is like night, she said. It covers everything.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
optimistic people holocaust
Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
peace war men
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
peace giving humanity
Peace is our gift to each other.
illegal humans human-beings
How can a human being be illegal?