Elie Wiesel: Universal Lessons of the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was 15 when the Nazis deported him, along with his family, from their home in Transylvania to Auschwitz. Losing both his parents and younger sister in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel has made it his lifelong goal to teach the world about the Holocaust. The prize-winning author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction, he has tried to capture in his writings the vibrant Jewish world that had existed before the war in addition to its destruction in the Holocaust. Speaking at the opening of Yad Vashem's new Holocaust History Museum, Elie Wiesel focuses upon the universal lessons that emerge from the Holocaust and the obligation to carry these messages to the world.
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[blondiniansfosho]

elie wiesel is an amazing person and anyone who denies the Holocaust is heartless.

[oldjoe5]

It's the most well publicized in history. Period. Many, many other genocides in history and in the 20th century that we hear nothing about. The Congo, Ukraine, Cambodia, Armenians, the Roma.

[todedragos]

he is romanian....i love him !!!

[extazy17]

Remembering the Holocaust is important. Remember and do not forget! But Jews must take the lessons of the Holocaust and deal with its enemies. Those who rise to destroy the Jews, must be destroyed completely.

[talkcoach1]

Dear Professor Wiesel, I still recall your words as a living testament to you and my Dad, one of your liberators from Buchenwald. This speech made me cry as I see you and my Dad so often in my mind. Today I ask my students the same questions: but where is their rage? That is why I urge my students to ponder your words in your speech, The Perils of Indifference. I am happy to report that several colleagues are recommending the essential sources you have recommended to me. Love, Prof. Robt. Burns

[alanheath]

@randy109 You seem to be forgetting that the killers were Christians.

[CYFilmStudent]

What a marvelous human being.

[bowler8]

@abby0campbell It's not only the jewish people that are discriminated against. You can have a white skin, and just because your accent is different, you are discriminated against, this makes you different in some peoples eyes.

[abby0campbell]

Bravo Elie Wiesel! Shame on the world then and shame on the world today as it continues to discriminate against the Jewish people.

[DukeTravers]

@oldjoe5 Did he say only Jews died? He said that the Holocaust was not about crulety to another man, in that the Jewish were not seen as men. If he talked on other genocides, which he has no personal expeirence, or another inflected group, do you think people will listen as hard? They barely do as it is. There is a high level of ignorence when someone watches a survivor to the unimagible who fights to be heard, only for veiwers like you to miraculously find a way to ridicule him.

[LIFEISGOODFORME65]

@randy109 Dude, shut up, I am Christian also and you are giving us a bad name. Christians weren't singled out to be killed or exterminated, the Jews were. Being Jewish is different that anything else, to be called a Jew can refer to two things, ethnicity of religion. One can be a Jew and an atheist at the same time, but someone cannot be a Christian and an atheist. It didn't matter to the Nazis if you was a Jew by religion or by ethnicity, you were still a Jew.

[drbic246]

@randy109 i understand your viewpoint; however, christians weren't singled out and intentionally slaughtered. judaism was a minority religion, which explains why the number of murdered jews is smaller.