The World of Elie Wiesel (1997)

Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel discusses contemporary issues and philosophical concerns with Reverend Jesse Jackson and Harvard historian Daniel Goldhagen. Produced in association with WNET/Thirteen and broadcast on public television.

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Wiesel, Elie Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Dawn

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Elie Wiesel in Concert: Memories and Melodies of My Childhood

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Jewish People

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Familiar Voices

  2008, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Sand and Sorrow

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen USA the Movie

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Protocols of Zion

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Die zehn Gebote der Kreativität

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Genocide Factor

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Visionen zum Millennium

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial

  1998, role: actor , character name: Nobel Laureate
• Play in Full Screen A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Death of Yugoslavia

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Passover Seder

  1994, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beyond Hate

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Facing Hate

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia

  1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen 1986 World Series

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself - 1st Pitch Thrower
• Play in Full Screen L'aube

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Kaddish

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen To Bear Witness

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Elie Wiesel ou La ferveur hassidique

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Le procès de Shamgorod

  1982, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Zalmen: or, The Madness of God

  1975, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Un temps pour la mémoire

  1970, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sighet, Sighet

  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Elie Wiesel:

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain."

"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"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."

"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."

"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die."

"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."

"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."

"That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."

"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."