Elie Wiesel Quotes

“It would not be an exaggeration on my part if I were to say that they greatly helped the genocidal nation prepare the psychological background for the disaster,” Wiesel said in the Hebrew manuscript, speaking of innocents like his relatives and some community leaders. “In fact the professional optimists meant to make the present easier, but in doing so they buried the future. It is almost certain that if we had only a little of the truth—dozens of Jews or more would have fled.”14”
― Joseph Berger, Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence