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
holocaust tragedy answers
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.
hope holocaust despair
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
hate holocaust healthy
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
dream night holocaust
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
mean holocaust trials
I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
christian impact holocaust
The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
shoes holocaust sacred
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
holocaust victim jew
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
night long holocaust
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
holocaust world events
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.
night long holocaust
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
death holocaust stories
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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.
war holocaust bears
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.