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
heart islam today
There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
inspirational writing ifs
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
events
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.
holocaust would-be forget
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
thinking few-words emphasis
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
easier conformist
It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
men genocide destruction
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
life-is wounded
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.
answers
Questions outlive the answers.
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.
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.
helping-others survival may
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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.