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Elie Wiesel, aged 15. (Late 1943 or spring
1944)
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.[Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)]
AUTHOR: Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born
September 30, 1928) is a Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political
activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on
his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration
camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner
Journal.
When Wiesel was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him
a "messenger to mankind," stating that through his struggle to come
to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the
utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his
"practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a
powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.
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