Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence e… - Elie Wiesel

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Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (30 September 1928 – 2 July 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books (mostly written in French and English), including Night, a work based on his experience incarcerated in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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Alternative Names: Eliezer Wiesel • A-7713 • Élie Wiesel

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Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

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