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Elie Wiesel Quote
 | Source/Notes: US News & World Report (27 October 1986) |
| “I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.” ―Elie Wiesel Source/Notes: As quoted in "The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance", John E. Hare, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 93 - ISBN: 9780198263814 |
| “Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.” ―Elie Wiesel Source/Notes: Legends of Our Time (1968), p. 6 - ISBN: 9780805207149 |
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Elie Wiesel
Born: September 30, 1928 (age 90)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Novelist, professor
Bio: Eliezer Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. 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.
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