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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
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There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
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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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Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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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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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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