Did the World Learn from Auschwitz? - Elie Wiesel

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/27/Elie_Wiesel_What_Makes_Us_Moral

Elie Wiesel calls education the only weapon against racism, although the leaders of Nazi murder commands were well-educated. He asks, "If Auschwitz hasn't cured the world of anti-Semitism, what can?"

-----

Humanitarian and Night author Elie Wiesel lectures on the theme "What Makes Us Moral: An Abrahamic Perspective."

Wiesel draws on his experience as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps as well as contemporary global issues for evidence of what makes a moral or immoral society. - Chautauqua Institution

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the Founding President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures and the Chairman of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization he and his wife created to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice. Elie Wiesel has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• auschwitz
• nazi
• nazis
• hitler
• germany
• world
• war
• two
• ii
• concentration
• camps
• anti
• semitism
• semitic
• racism
• racist
• prejudice
• jews
• jewish
• fora.tv
• foratv
• fora
• tv

[jneil2007]

RIP all the people that lost their lives during ww2 and the concentration camps

[Icix1]

Idiots, all of you. All you do is point fingers instead of working towards the real solution. If we spent half as much time trying to stop genocides instead of arguing over them this world would be a much better place. But instead we get wrapped up in Jew vs. Palestinian bullshit. I'm sure the people of gaza would much rather we focus on stopping these events than argue over them. The lesson of the holocaust was to go out and do something about it instead of arguing what ifs.

[tekubus]

What we learned from this holocaust or whatever, is that Jews are the most hateful, sinister, deceitful race of people in the history of this planet. But I guess we kind of knew that already.

[GebeClairEtNet]

This Wiesel is a nut case. He tells in his book that he could tell the nationality of the victims in the crematoriums by the color of the smoke coming out of the chimneys !

The holocaust tale was created in the offices of soviet propaganda. It's purpose is to justify WW2 and creation of Israel.

[sgntelias]

the jews outlasted hitlers nazi's. hitler believed in Darwin's 'survival of the fittest'.... so jews are the master race

[cindikleincuomo]

@sw12345678ful It was'nt only the Jews-you ignorant  sick low life.

[cindikleincuomo]

@alien209 You should rot in hell with your Hitler.

[kaybbayyy2362]

god why are people filled with so much hatred in this comments, i mean seriously grow up, i a honestly wish people who put up videos on youtube about the holocaust would not allow commenting on it cause i would be so much more enjoyable to watch without all the hateful comments for holocaust deniers

[DEFKISSDAY]

@DudeAbidesNoMore You seriously dont think the holocaust happened?!

[alien209]

HEIL HITLER!

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

Did the world learn from Auschwitz?

Yes, the Jewish people learned how to ethnically cleanse people very effectively and they have applied it to the Palestinians. They learned very well.

.... always this self-righteous grievance and entitlement; this emphasis that beside Jewish suffering all other suffering belongs somehow to a lesser order.