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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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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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Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
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