Elie Wiesel on The Holocaust
← Back to Elie Wiesel ProfileHaunted by survival, Elie Wiesel grapples with the dissonance of normalcy in a post-Holocaust world, finding the continuation of ordinary life to be the truly extraordinary anomaly.
“What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.”
“The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened... You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries—they still flourish.”