Elie Wiesel Quotes About Auschwitz

Quotes about: Auschwitz

• Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Forever, Levels

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.6, Schocken

• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

• Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Tragedy, Answers

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

• I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Praying, Used

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred, Victim

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

  Elie Wiesel

  Father, Son, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Army, Order

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, People, Holocaust

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

• I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

  Elie Wiesel

  America, President, Allies

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

• I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

  Elie Wiesel

  Surprise, Auschwitz

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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