elie wiesel we day speech transcript

And then he died. Elie Wiesel is 16 years old at the conclusion of. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And it is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor the highest there is that you have chosen to bestow upon me. And now the boy is turning to me. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Elie Wiesel's Profound and Paradoxical Language of Silence It is important Of course, since I am a Jew profoundly rooted in my peoples memory and tradition, my first response is to Jewish fears, Jewish needs, Jewish crises. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.