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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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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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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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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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