Elie Wiesel Quotes
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
Wiesel, Elie. "The Perils of Indifference." Millennium Evening at the White House, 12 Apr. 1999, Washington, D.C.
This famous ad showed a young girl removing petals from a daisy which then transitions into a nuclear explosion. It is often considered to be the most effective political TV commercial ever produced. One of the reasons it was so effective is that although the Democrats only ran the ad once, it was repeatedly played on television news and analysis shows and is a much studied and discussed approach. The ad was produced by Tony Schwartz.
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.
