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Elie Wiesel Quotes about Holocaust

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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Holocaust, Would Be, Forget

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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.

Differences, People, Holocaust

Source: www.nobelprize.org

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

Holocaust, Forget

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Faith, Anger, Holocaust

"Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

Hate, Holocaust, Healthy

"Legends of Our Time". Book by Elie Wiesel, 1968.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Death, Holocaust, Doe

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Memories, People, Holocaust

I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

Mean, Holocaust, Trials

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Dream, Night, Holocaust

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

War, Holocaust, Bears

"Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

Night, Long, Holocaust

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

Night, Long, Holocaust

Night ch. 3 (1960)

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. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

Differences, People, Holocaust

Interview with Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Holocaust, Events, World

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Shoes, Holocaust, Entering

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

Holocaust, Opera, Soap

Source: www.npr.org

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

Holocaust, Tragedy, Wish

Source: www.npr.org

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Hope, Holocaust, Despair

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Holocaust, Tragedy, Answers

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

Holocaust, Victim, Jew

Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)”, p.166, Schocken

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Holocaust, May, Incidents

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

Christian, People, Holocaust

Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

Christian, Impact, Holocaust

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.5, Schocken

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Optimistic, People, Holocaust

Source: www.nobelprize.org

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