Elie wiesel biography video

Wiesel was a famous Jewish thinker, he became a living icon, a symbol of suffering, survival, and faith in terrible conditions. The mention of his name in any context immediately gave that context significance.

People unconsciously, automatically treated him with respect and even awe, because of his biography, because of the tragic aura that emanated from him.

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It has also served as a shield against painfully sharp memories, an anesthetic buffer that numbs the pain of the Holocaust, a golem of grief that sits in the endless shiva instead of us. He earned this respect for his role in the post-war decades when there were no Holocaust memorials on every corner, and in every school curriculum, a block of lessons on the Shoah.

Wiesel was then a personified museum of the Holocaust, a man who single-handedly demanded from the world of memory and respect for all the victims, the dead, and the survivors.

Biography

Elie Wiesel was born in the Transylvanian town of Sigh