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
tasks turbulent-times jew
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
wall civilization magic
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
library want ifs
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
army firsts moses
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
action indifference danger
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
answers found wells
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
may incidents happened
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
helping-others survival may
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
people stories
People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
strong hate love-is
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
divorce arguing life-is
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
real teaching thinking
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
christian wall mean
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.
people hatred victim
I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.