Elie Wiesel Quotes

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

The danger that the massacres will surely ruin your state the same as it has destroyed those innocent Jewish victims, rather deepens my regret that you have till now not succeeded in suppressing fully the excesses

They are shooting Jews in masses. These crimes must not be allowed to continue..

Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

Jews the world over are trying to crush the new Germany. German people, defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews.

I denounce the madness that has taken possession of the Nazis of Germany in these days of persecution of helpless, innocent Jews whose only offense is that they are members of the race of which Jesus … was a member.

The Church’s obstruction of the practical solution of the Jewish problem constitutes a crime against the New Europe.

Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

Marched into Russia. Killed the Jews. Strangled the women. Murdered the children. Everyone knows what we bring.

Since the conquest of Poland, 300,000 Jews in this land have been murdered in the most bestial manner. The German people are again sleeping on in obtuse, stupid sleep giving these fascist criminals the temerity and opportunity to continue to rage—and they are doing it…. Everyone is guilty, guilty, guilty!

The Germans are going to expel their Jewish Scientists. When that happens, the French will pray for the victims, the British will organize their rescue, and the Americans will pay for it.

I found myself right in the middle of an absolute hotbed of Nazi intrigue. All the Jewish shops had 'Jude' daubed over the windows, and the Jews themselves were attacked.

Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's not forget, people with disability.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.