Elie Wiesel Quotes About Holocaust
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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.
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It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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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....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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.
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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.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
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At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.
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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.
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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.
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