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
surprise auschwitz
I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
world remember
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
peace remember mankind
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
bystanders holocaust remembrance
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
illusion vain dangerous
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
education mean divine-beauty
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
memories civilization would-be
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
people stories
People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
thinking worst humans
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
children war adults
When adults wage war, children perish.
secret treasure triumph
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
pain compassion people
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
children culture shields
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
unique humanity criminals
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.