Wiesel, Elie: 1928 - 2016

Information by Elie Wiesel

Barack Obama mentions in his book "A Promised Land" during his visit to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp in 2009 about Elie Wiesel, who had survived the concentration camp:
"Then Elie spoke, describing how in 1945 - paradoxically - he had emerged from the camp feeling hopeful about the future. Hopeful, he said, because he assumed that the world had surely learned once and for all that hatred was useless and racism stupid and 'the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations ... is meaningless.' He wasn't so sure now that such optimism was justified, he said, not after the killing of Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, and Bosnia.
But he beseeched us, beseeched me, to leave Buchenwald with resolve, to try to bring about peace, to use the memory of what had happened on the ground where we stood to see past anger and division and find strength in solidarity."
Elie Wiesel talks about his life; written, audio and video versions. Academy of Achievement, June 29, 1996
Video (21:07)
The Perils of Indifference; speech delivered at the US Congress - with transcript
A Prayer for the Days of Awe
Audio (9:58)
Scott Simon talks to Elie Wiesel about his novel, The Judge, and the documentary on public television, First Person Singular. NPR Radio; October 19, 2002
Riz Khan talks with Elie Wiesel. Aljazeera; August 4, 2007:
part 1 (11:32)

part 2 (10:58)
An Evening with Elie Wiesel. University of California Television
Huge Collection of videos from Oprah Winfrey
Elie Wiesel on hope, compassion, and the power of youth
Video (35:03)
Interview with Georg Klein. Elie Wiesel talks about his perspectives on the world after World War II, recollections of his time in concentration camp (5:33), the indifference of the world (12:35), antisemitism (16.34), the importance of education (22:06) and that the tragedy of the Holocaust could have been avoided (24:23). December 10, 2004.
Elie Wiesel: "The world is not learning anything"
Elie Wiesel: Faith. April 13, 2000