To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive. to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. - Elie Wiesel

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To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive. to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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About Elie Wiesel

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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