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Apr 9, 2021 · Key Facts. 1. Elie Wiesel was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for forced labor and imprisoned in the concentration camps of Monowitz and Buchenwald. 2. After the war, Wiesel advocated tirelessly for remembering about and learning from the Holocaust.
Why is it important to remember the Holocaust? What does it mean to be a custodian of memory? Excerpts from Elie Wiesel's addresses during US Holocaust Memorial Museum Days of Remembrance commemorations in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Wiesel suggests that one of the great psychological and moral tragedies of the Holocaust is not just the death of faith in God but also the death of faith in humankind. Not only does God fail to act justly and save the Jews from the cruel Nazis; the Nazis drive the Jews into cruelty, so that the Jews themselves fail to act justly.
May 5, 20112:35 PM ET. By. Mark Memmott. The Days of Remembrance, the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust, continue through Sunday. AOL's "You've Got" video serie s offers this short...
"Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness." Elie Wiesel’s remarks at the closing session of the International Conference “The Legacy of Holocaust Survivors” at Yad Vashem’s Valley of the Communities, April 2002.
Jul 2, 2016 · Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer, and Nobel laureate who died Saturday at age 87, not only shaped how the world remembers the Holocaust, but how the memory of atrocity can help...
Jul 9, 2016 · In his 1986 Nobel acceptance speech, Elie spoke of the community of Holocaust survivors as honored by a terrible burden. He asked, “Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have...
