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.
pain betrayal people
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
helping-others survival helping
Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.
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.
life-is contact fascinated
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
men blessing years
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
memories literature want
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
writing reap
And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.
army firsts moses
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
dream vision may
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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.
men meaning-of-life life-is
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
baby want burning
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.