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“ ”Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
About Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (30 September 1928 – 2 July 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books (mostly written in French and English), including Night, a work based on his experience incarcerated in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
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Additional quotes by Elie Wiesel
War is like night, she said. It covers everything.
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.