Words Wednesday: Elie Wiesel
It’s Words Wednesday! Today we’re highlighting the words of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor, and writer who passed away last month.
This quote comes from Elie Wiesel’s acclaimed novel Night. Published in 1960, Night is based on Wiesel’s experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps from 1944 to 1945. The semi-autobiographical novel (some insist it is fiction) is divided into three parts: Night, Dawn, and Day. Night has become a staple of high school and college reading courses around the world and is part of the canon of fictional and non-fictional works about the Holocaust.
Wiesel passed away on July 2, 2016, at his home in New York City. A founding member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and chairman for the US Holocaust Memorial Council, Wiesel’s legacy lives on in his many written works, his political activism, and in the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
“He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
-Elie Wiesel, Night
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