At the end of the 20th century author and holocaust survivor elie wiesel delivered a speech titled the perils of indifference to a joint session of the united states congress.

Elie wiesel quotes holocaust background. Elie wiesel quotes on being vigilant toward evil. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented elie wiesel silence helps the oppressors leslie meisels. Holocaust quotes about the horror of the event. All collective judgments are wrong.

To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive. Here are some quotes. After liberation wiesel became a prominent writer authoring a series of works based upon his experiences and speaking around the world about the importance of never forgetting what happened during the holocaust in europe. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim. In the book he gave a detailed account recounting his experiences of surviving holocaust. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. Wiesel was the nobel peace prize winning author of the haunting memoir night a slim memoir that traces his struggle for survival at the auschwitz buchenwald work complex when he was a teenager.

A nobel laureate writer professor and political activist eliezer elie wiesel was a romanian born american jewish who jumped to fame after his work a memoir night that gave a first hand account of his life as a survivor of holocaust and as a prisoner in the auschwitz and buchenwald concentration camps. Do you know why most survivors of the holocaust are vegan. Elie wiesel quotes about holocaust. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

No religious faith is inferior. 1 no human race is superior. Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Parade magazine 1992. Sometimes elie wiesel. Here are 20 inspirational quotes from elie wiesel holocaust survivor. Elie wiesel 1928 2016 was born in sighet romania on september 30 1928.

I told him that i did not believe that they could burn people in our age that humanity would never tolerate it elie wiesel. 2 just as man cannot live without dreams he cannot live without hope. Wiesel was sent to buna werke labor camp a. Never shall i forget these things even if i am condemned to live as long as god himself.

We must take sides. Never shall i forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. At the age of 15 wiesel and his entire family were sent to auschwitz as part of the holocaust which took the lives of more than 6 million jews.

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