“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel
Yesterday, July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel died. He was 87 years old.
Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his tireless activism and lived call for peace. He was a Jewish, Romanian-born writer, professor, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. Who moved the to USA about a decade after WW2. He penned more than 50 books, including the bestselling, Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
In his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize he said:
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”
The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University was created in 2005, to offer academic degree programs and holds lectures, events, and conferences for academic and nonacademic audiences.
Below are just a few of the many books authored by Dr. Wiesel:
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
Elie Wiesel
Rest in Peace, dwight
