A Nobel laureate writer professor and political activist Eliezer Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish who jumped to fame after his work a memoir Night that gave a first-hand account of his life as a survivor of Holocaust and as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Elie wiesel quotes memory. Elie Wiesel Memory is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. Elie Wiesel quotes memory. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone.

Madness Quotes Survival Quotes. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom glorify that kingdom and serve it. I believe in memory.

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men women and children but also against Jewish religion Jewish culture Jewish tradition therefore Jewish memory. I believe in those things that cannot be forgotten and because of that so much in my work deals with memory. Without memory there would be no civilization no society no future.

In the book he gave a detailed account recounting his experiences of surviving. Whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness he said at the Legacy of Holocaust Survivors conference at. An immoral society deals with memory as some politicians deal with politics.

To the memory of a town forever vanished to the memory of a childhood in exile to the memory of all those I loved and who before I could tell them I. Without memory there would be no civilization no society no future. Below are some of his most memorable words of wisdom.

Wiesel spoke out at a period when most Holocaust survivors remained quiet despite escaping the Auschwitz death camp after being sent there when he was 15 years old. For in the end it is all about memory its sources and its magnitude and of course its consequences. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom glorify that kingdom and serve it Author.