![]() He was writing out of a desire for truth, I think, and I think he felt he was obliged to be as productive as he was because, because he was a survivor.ĮLIE WIESEL: Much depends on us, on our sense of justice and integrity, on our dedication to truth, on our willingness to share our innermost memories. ILEENE SMITH: Elie very definitely believed that all of humanity had a great deal to learn from the Holocaust. He was doing through a lifetime what he was encouraging other people to do. PAUL SHAPIRO: He knew that understanding the Holocaust both honored and gave meaning to the people who lived in the past but could also unlock some insights about how to better manage the future. Having said that, his prominence did catapult a movement into national and international recognition that was vitally important. SARA J BLOOMFIELD: If Elie were sitting here today, he would say, 'I don't speak for all survivors.' Every survivor speaks for themselves and no one speaks for the victims. Elie became who he was only because of the dreadful experience of the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() TED KOPPEL: Elie was, in many respects, a great man, but what made him so approachable is that in some respects he was just a very ordinary man, but a very ordinary man who had been tempered in a dreadful furnace of experience. ![]()
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