Elie Wiesel Quotes

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.

I've been to Dachau.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

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.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.