Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel


Born
in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania
September 30, 1928

Died
July 02, 2016

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicara
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel

Polls

May 2019 Short Story/Novella Poll

Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, 1958
 
  87 votes, 27.5%

 
  75 votes, 23.7%

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, 2 pages, 1984
 
  48 votes, 15.2%

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, 10 pages +-, 1956
 
  45 votes, 14.2%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 122 pages, 1929
 
  40 votes, 12.7%

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin, 88 pages, 1957
 
  21 votes, 6.6%

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