Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
From Elie Wiesel
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
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