Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87

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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Weisel

Have we learned nothing?

It is with great sadness that I report on the passing of Elie Weisel, the conscience, the witness, Nobel Laureate Holocaust survivor, American Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist.
If you haven’t read “Night” — do so now. His poignant memoir about surviving Nazi concentration camps is seared into my memory.

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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust Survivor and ‘Night’ Author, Dies at 87, By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, July 2, 2016:

Elie Wiesel, the prolific Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose poignant memoir about surviving Nazi concentration camps became standard reading for children around the globe, has died. He was 87.

Wiesel’s son, Elisha Wiesel, told NBC News on Saturday that the author had died, and said the family is observing Shabbat and has requested privacy at the moment.

Wiesel, who was born in 1928 in Romania, was forced in May 1944 into Auschwitz, where he eventually watched his sick, malnourished father Shlomo Wiesel,die after getting beaten by a German soldier. He wrote about the experience, plus the deaths of his mother and younger sister during the Holocaust, in his acclaimed 1955 autobiography, “Night.”

Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, 83, in his office on in New York on Sept. 12, 2012. Bebeto Matthews / AP

The atrocities he witnessed fueled Wiesel to combat inhumanity around the world, including in the former Yugoslavia and in Darfur — efforts that in 1986, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.

“We must speak, we must take sides, for neutrality helps the oppressor — never the victim,” he said upon receiving the prize.

The prize’s citation referred to him as “a messenger to mankind.”

Tributes for Wiesel immediately started pouring in Saturday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him a “beacon of light to the humanity of people who believed in the good of everyone.”

The World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said in a statement that Wiesel “was more than a revered writer. He was also a teacher for many of us. He taught us about the horrors of Auschwitz. He taught us about Judaism, about Israel, and about not being silent in the face of injustice.”

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who a few months ago gave Wiesel the medal of Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem, said of the author: “Instead of giving in to despair, the face of evil and cruelty that at the time was the darkest of humanity, he carried all the way through the message of tolerance and peace for all peoples of the world.”

Following the war, Wiesel was sent to a French orphanage, where he was reunited with his older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda. He first took up writing in his 20s, when he became a journalist for French and Israeli publications.

Despite later becoming a ubiquitous, first-hand account of surviving the Holocaust, “Night” sold under 2,000 copies in the United States in the first 18 months after it was published.

It has now sold more than 6 million copies, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which first reported Wiesel’s death.

Wiesel originally wrote “Night” in French and had it translated into English. The book enjoyed renewed popularity when Oprah Winfrey chose a new translation of “Night” by Wiesel’s wife, Austrian Holocaust survivor Marion Rose, for her book club in 2006.

Wiesel and Marian married in Jerusalem in 1969. She also translated his future books, including “Dawn” and “Day,” which completed his trilogy series on the Holocaust. In all, he wrote more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction.

Wiesel met his wife in New York, where he had moved to in 1955. Over the years, he became a vocal activist, earning him the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in addition to the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against discrimination and racism.

Wiesel became an outspoken advocate of education on the Holocaust when President Jimmy Carter appointed him chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust in 1978. In that role, he helped create the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

A quote from Wiesel — “for the dead and the living, we must bear witness — is displayed at the museum’s entrance.

Wiesel didn’t shy away from his past. In 2006, he went to Auschwitz with Winfrey, and in 2009, Wiesel went with President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a trip to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

His faith never wavered. At the Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony in April 2009, standing alongside Obama in the Capitol Rotunda, Wiesel said, “I belong to a traumatized generation that felt abandoned by God and betrayed by mankind. And yet, I believe that one must not estrange from God or mankind.”

More ….

Elie Wiesel Quotes on God, the Holocaust and Humanity

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, author and human rights activist passed away on Saturday at 87.

1. It seemed as impossible to conceive of Auschwitz with God as to conceive of Auschwitz without God. Therefore, everything had to be reassessed because everything had changed. (The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)
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2. For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act.
Elie Wiesel, highlighted in red, and other inmates in Buchenwald camp, 1945.Private H. Miller, U.S. Defence Visual Information Center

3. Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. (Interview with U.S. media, 1986)

4. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)

5. Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning. (The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)

6. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. (The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)

7. I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. (Interview to the Paris Review, 1984)

8. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death. (Interview with U.S. media, 1986)

9. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. (Interview to Parade Magazine, 1992)

10. When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming. (Interview to Israeli media, 2010)
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.728537

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Lisa
Lisa
7 years ago

RIP

Danny
Danny
7 years ago

Did he ever show his tattoo?

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s;vbkr0boc,klos;
7 years ago
Reply to  Danny

My aunt had hers removed in mid-life. She is in her 90’s in a home suffering dementia. She hides bread crusts and scraps of food under her pillow. I guess you never forget.

Uselesscrap
Uselesscrap
7 years ago

So hearbbreaking.

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s;vbkr0boc,klos;
7 years ago
Reply to  Uselesscrap

And she had it removed because she didn’t want to ’embarrass’ her 100% American children. There was a great ‘silencing’ of survivors from 1945-1962 (when the Eichmann trial shifted things). It is shameful how holocaust survivors were left unhealed and living in silence during those years.

Uselesscrap
Uselesscrap
7 years ago

I know about this bec my parents were told by the American relatives to keep quiet. American Jews did little during the Holocaust; only a few orthodox Rabbis tried to help. American Jews were a disgrace then and today many if their spawn are anti Israel. BDS is full of them. Disgusting scum.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Now, some one must take his place.

wilypagan
wilypagan
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Big shoes.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

Motivation, there is someone somewhere who can see further by standing on the shoulders of this giant.

wilypagan
wilypagan
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I always liked Victor Frankl, but he is gone too:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2782.Viktor_E_Frankl

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

He left a legacy of thought that will inspire and uplift, as well as explaining a few things.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

We have to use his legacy now. We have the same kind of enemy and we must learn to fight them just as much as Wiesel’s generation fought the Nazis, Yimach Shemam Vezichram.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

The “mechanics are the same, the machinery has changed” in essence the battle continues to rage.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
7 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

One of my favorite books. May they both rest in peace for lives well lived.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

There are very few remaining survivors, they are old and soon there may not be even one.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

The next generation will have to learn from their ancestors, which is not a popular pastime, it sometime looks like it is impossible for lessons to be passed on, every generation seems to have to repeat the same stupidity of the pervious, then mindlessly mutter “never again”.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

That is a universal constant.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

No matter where you go, there you are.

s;vbkr0boc,klos;
s;vbkr0boc,klos;
7 years ago

And WE are left with a great excuse for a Jew – Noam Chomsky who wrote a snide lying hateful book attacking Elie Wiesel and what he snidely called ‘the holocaust industry’.

steelraptor from Saturn
steelraptor from Saturn
7 years ago

Do you not mean Chomsky’s buddy and fellow Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein? He wrote the book ‘The Holocaust Industry’. Bestseller in Germany as well. Not surprising.

s;vbkr0boc,klos;
s;vbkr0boc,klos;
7 years ago

Sorry! I didn’t go to college and so I can’t tell them apart! But you are right.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Finkelstein was complaining about a year ago that he wasn’t getting paid to spread his islamic propaganda anymore, I suppose his muslum paymasters finally got tired of him.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago

He has no shame. He is as despicable a human being as one can get. I wish he were not Jewish.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Sacha Baron Cohen in his jungalist persona had a hilarious fake interview w/Gnome Chompsky. Cohen particularly had a lot of fun w/the fact Gnome Chompsky fancies himself a linguist — a cunning linguist.

Elie Wiesel was an Inspiration
Elie Wiesel was an Inspiration
7 years ago

Very sad. A big loss for the Jewish people and the world. May Elie Wiesel’s memory be for a blessing.

Elie Wiesel will be missed by people all over the world. It’s going to take a long time to accept he is gone. Elie Wiesel was a brave and wonderful human being and survived the holocaust to tell the world.

A true inspiration. Elie Wiesel will never be forgotten. His books live on to tell the horrors of the holocaust.

Thank G-d we have Israel now.

The Jewish people have a home.

wilypagan
wilypagan
7 years ago

If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem
May my right hand lose its skill
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember thee, oh Jerusalem
And put thee above my highest joy.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

Psalm 122:6.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago

His voice was a lone voice in the wilderness. He did not have many followers among democrats who voted for Obama and thus brought upon us a new kind of Nazi’s. The Evil Moslems. We do not have now a voice such as Wiesel to alert and alarm the world.

Elie Wiesel Incredible Human
Elie Wiesel Incredible Human
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

That worries me.

How ironic that Elie Wiesel passes away on Al Quds Day a day Muslims dedicate to holocaust denial and Elie Wiesel’s life was dedicated to tell the truth and that the holocaust never be forgotten and that its victims never be forgotten and to learn from the tragedy of the holocaust.

Elie Wiesel was an incredible human being who had the will to live on and tell the world about the holocaust. I plan to buy his book Night. It won’t be easy to read.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago

It is the hand of god that guides everything, including the death of elie Wiesel, it shows to the world that lies do not have a chance against what God is doing!! Am Israel Chai!!!

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

six types of lies encouraged by the Torah: http://judaism.is/torah-encourages-lies.html

(1) scholarship (including Torah scholarship),
(2) sexuality, and
(3) hospitality
The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, Vol II, p.49
(4) lying to gentiles (Baba Kamma 113a)
(5) for “peace” (meaning, “it’s OK to lie to keep out of trouble”) (Yebamoth 65b)
(6) when everyone should know you are lying, guzmah (Hullin 90b)

“Rabbis are liable to alter their words, and the accuracy of their statements is not to be relied upon.” The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, Vol. II, pp. 48-49.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago

What delusional rubbish! Wiesel was repeatedly caught in mutually conflicting serial lies. He even confessed that he lied:
“I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.” Elie Wiesel in Elie Wiesel: conversations By Élie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi, (1970), p 33.

Professor David O’Connell also published a well-documented study of Elie Wiesel’s “eyewitness” lies. For his effort, the Holocaust promoters attempted to have him fired.
David O’Connell, “Elie Wiesel and the Catholics,” Culture Wars magazine, Nov. 2004.
archived at http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres6/OConnellWiesel.pdf

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago

A Prominent False Witness: Elie Wiesel
by Robert Faurisson, October 17, 1986
http://robertfaurisson.blogspot.com/1986/10/a-prominent-false-witness-elie-wiesel.html

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Muhammad was gay and so was Sh!tler.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago

As long as you are going to read his book please also read the book called All Rivers Flow To The Sea. I could not put it down, and it is not about the Holocaust but his life after the Liberation. You will get a different and a much better picture of this giant of a man.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

You also have Anita Dittman, author, another Jewish holocaust survivor. The MSM will heap praise on Elie Wiesel. It will not do the same with Anita Dittman. She has warned about Obama; Weisel attended Obama’s inauguration. Boils down to this …

You have to be the right kind of Jew to receive MSM praise and laurels …

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Sir I have many Military friends in Israel.
I have often asked them if they had any insight into the leftist American Jew’s mind.
They are as mystified as I on this arcane subject.

Elie Wiesel Famous Quotes
Elie Wiesel Famous Quotes
7 years ago

Here are some quotes from Elie Wiesel:

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

In Toronto today Sat. July 2nd, we heard the great Robert Spencer speak at the Al Quds Protest at Queens Park.

As Elie Wiesel said, silence encourages the tormentor and I applaud everyone who came out today Queens Park today in Toronto.

Elie Wiesel was one-of-a-kind and this is a great loss. His memory and words shall live on.

Shabbat Shalom
G-d Bless Israel and Elie’s memory

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Spencer was on CBC today as well. CBC is practically the only news program I trust anymore — outside of say Hannity or Dobbs.
Was anyone arrested at the Al Quds protest for hate speech? Was Eric Brazau there?

Lady4Yeshua
Lady4Yeshua
7 years ago

The world has lost a truly great man! With Elie Wiesel in the world, the Arab Muslims cannot claim that the Shoah / Holocaust never existed! RIP Elie, and may your name be a blessing to all!

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Lady4Yeshua

That photo, like many others, has been repeatedly and authoritatively debunked as a FAKE. http://judaism.is/holocaust.html

Note the unnatural appearance of the left arm, so obviously a faked double exposure that the faked photo had to be cropped:
http://judaism.is/images/fake2b.jpg?crc=4015812311

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Is the holey Mein Quranmpf the source of you insanity? Or Mein Kampf?

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

I offer photographic evidence. You offer name-calling. How stereotypical of you. http://judaism.is/holocaust.html

lostlegends
lostlegends
7 years ago

My sons read his book, “Night.” When they finished I read it. Beyond words.

Philip
Philip
7 years ago

As a yute in highschool (pre-Schindler’s List) I began reading “Night.” It was my first exposure to the Holocaust. I remember being so stunned and thinking it was a fictional account- surely dramatized. Felt nauseous the rest of the day when I learned that it was true.
I’m glad he was able to live a full life after.
Why do we always seem to forget?

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago
Reply to  Philip

Do not say “we”, I want to believe that there are more “we” than “they”, like all those who voted for Obama who is not fighting the Moslems but is allowing them to come here and practice their “religion” on us.

Philip
Philip
7 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

Thank you for commenting. I’m very upset this morning. I didn’t mean any offense. I read what Blumenthal’s brood said over an hour ago and I’m still quaking with anger from it. I never finished “Night.” It was too horrible and I was too young. The callous, unsympathetic indifference quoted above seems on display everywhere. That is what I believe too many have not just forgotten- but never ever bothered to learn- why those who went through it solemnly said, “Never Forget.”
“We” was not the right word. You are right. “They” is too ominous too, I suppose.
God help us all.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
7 years ago
Reply to  Philip

When we celebrate Passover we read the story of the exoduc from Egypt and we recite the following: “every generation has to see himself as if he was liberated from Egypt”. This is what our sages put in that story of the exodus and we have to say these words when we remember the Holocaust. If we do not think of ourselves as survivors we will not understand the Liberation form the Concentration camps./

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Mohammad was a raving butt pirate and while they say mohammad dyed his hair red — it was actually pink.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Wiesel admitted his lies. What does that have to do with Mo being a pervert?
http://judaism.is/images/sanhedrin%2054b%20steinsaltz.jpg?crc=4268058806

Lysy2
Lysy2
7 years ago

In his later years he became nothing more than a money-grabbing CEO of Holocaust INC. Sorry to say that….

catherineinpvb
catherineinpvb
7 years ago
Reply to  Lysy2

“Sorry”. . .are you sure?

Uselesscrap
Uselesscrap
7 years ago
Reply to  Lysy2

That is riduculous!!!! Shame in you.

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s;vbkr0boc,klos;
7 years ago
Reply to  Lysy2

Read even a superficial critique of Finkelstein’s vile ‘The Holocaust Industry’ to let some truth into your tiny brain and even tinier heart.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  Lysy2

Wikipedia has a photo of him at the Obama inauguration in 2009. Sorry to say that, too …

steelraptor from Saturn
steelraptor from Saturn
7 years ago

There is something perverse and insane about Carter having appointed Wiesel chairman of the Presidential Commission of the Holocaust back in ’78. Carter would later out himself as a real Jew-hater, and even a Hamas supporter (remember the praise he gave for Khaled Mashaal). Obama and his tribute to Wiesel is likewise black comedy. Oh look the friend to the Iranian ayatollahs and Auschwitz borders supporter Obama, pays tribute to Wiesel.

And of course all the self-hating liberal Obama loving Jews in America, pay tribute to Wiesel. Even as they effectively support another Holocaust. Beyond perverse.

Uselesscrap
Uselesscrap
7 years ago

Brilliant.

Obama & Carter are Phonies
Obama & Carter are Phonies
7 years ago

Excellent observation. People like Carter and Obama pay tribute to go along but they show how they really think and what they really believe through their actions like Carter supporting Hamas and Barrack Hussein Obama engineering the immoral Iran deal. Elie Wiesel was in the audience as was Obama as Benjamin Netanyahu tried his best to stop the Iran deal but his warnings and Elie’s presence changed nothing for the anti-Semite that we know Obama truly is. People like Carter and Obama will never change both are hard core anti-Semites and terrorist supporters as they both prove again and again. No matter how many people Muslim terrorists slaughter Obama praises Islam and shows more sympathy to the terrorists than the victims.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago

Carter and Obama are worse than anti-Semitic – they are miso-Judaic (haters of all that is Jewish).

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Genesis 9:6 (penealty for murder) was in place long before the Ten Commandments, and applied to Noah and all his descendants.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Cain was a Đim$∅′ќrät/ Яyan⊗.
Proof:
He committed their favorite social experimant murder.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

As if punishment for murder and killing even “the best” are equivalent?

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Another word game …

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Wiesel offered cover of his magic victim mantle to those who would conquer for Judaism. https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/750711440810516484

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

God would be busy today if He had to mark the face of murders. Chi-town alone would keep Him busy.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

No where in these oft-cited discussions of hate does anyone cite the things God hates: Proverbs 6:16-19. Also 8:13.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Weak try at distraction.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

II Corinthians 12:10.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

As if your teaching the opposite of Jesus Christ makes you a worker for Christ? No way. Mr. Steiner, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11 is more applicable to you. http://www.drbo.org/x/d?b=drb&bk=60&ch=2&l=11#x

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

Try Romans 2:1-2.

truthsayer
truthsayer
7 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Romans
Chapter 2
The Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not. He declares who are the true Jews…. http://www.drbo.org/chapter/52002.htm

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  truthsayer

You are correct, near the end of the chapter. We agree on that point.

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

couldnt agree more. Obama used wiesel, to try and pervert his message to somehow benefit the muzrats

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

A sad passing indeed. In his “Crusade In Europe”, General Eisenhower tells how he ordered the Visual Information Center workers to photograph and document everything concerning the conditions found upon liberating the death camps in 1945. He states that otherwise no one would be able to grasp the horror that was there.

David Sinclair
David Sinclair
7 years ago

And say that it didn’t happen.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago
Reply to  David Sinclair

Agreed. That last Iranian president, who I call “Iwannajihad”, used to delight in that. It was obvious it was his ass talking, his mouth knew better.

Eu Wei Choi
Eu Wei Choi
7 years ago

The World,The US and Israel and The Jewish People LOST a GREAT MAN.
Rest in Peace ,Eli,
You’ve Truly Earned Peace

Georgia Smith
Georgia Smith
7 years ago

I went to a seminar and listened to the very wise man, Nobel Peace Prize winner and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, speak in person back in the mid 1980’s at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana. I had to write a paper on it for a literature class. I expected to be bored to tears, and had no idea how life changing that event would be at the time! You could hear a pin drop on the floor as everyone lingered on his every word! It was a blessing indeed to be able to hear that man speak that night. Not because of the unimaginable horrors and events he spoke of, but because it broadened my perspective of the world, and opened my eyes at a very young age to worldly hate, which in turn strengthened my own personal walk with God. This man lost his entire family, and barely escaped with his own life, but could still hold his head up and see good in humanity. I have no doubt in my mind God lifted him out of that hell of the holocaust so that he could tell his story and touch so many lives all over the world! He sure touched me! I will never forget his closing comment, ”If you take home anything from this night, then take home this much. Let us NEVER forget the past, for the moment we forget, it WILL repeat itself.”

Diane Sori
Diane Sori
7 years ago

Pamela…beautiful tribute to such a great man. I still have his book ‘Night’…read it many times. May Elie Rest in Everlasting Peace away from the haunting memories, together forever with his family, and safe in the arms of God. If the world had more Elie Weisel’s the world would be a better place for us all.

נוח על משכבך בשלום … אתה סוף סוף הביתה

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

RIP, job well done

MattTarango
MattTarango
7 years ago

Read Night. Astonishing. Beautiful, horrific. RIP, Elia Weisel. You were tougher than even your father.

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