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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
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A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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