Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Author: Elie Wiesel
After all God is God because he remembers.
After all God is God because he remembers.
Without memory there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization no society no future.
Without memory there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization no society no future.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
I was very very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith but I question it.
I was very very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith but I question it.
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
No one may speak for the dead no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
No one may speak for the dead no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Man as long as he lives is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later God wins.
Man as long as he lives is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later God wins.
Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.
Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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.
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.