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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel
The secure world of Wiesel's childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish inhabitants of the village were deported en masse to concentration camps in Poland. The 15-year-old boy was separated from his mother and sister immediately on arrival in Auschwitz. He never saw them again. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. source
Rhiannon12866
(207,606 posts)What an amazing human being, to have suffered so much terrible loss and to spend an entire lifetime giving back... He really did spread light in the darkness.
JI7
(89,314 posts)on certain matters rather than those with differing opinions .
Skittles
(153,460 posts)Hekate
(91,231 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)several years ago. It was an inspiring and a wonderful evening.
brer cat
(24,707 posts)Never forget.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)appalachiablue
(41,276 posts)Indifference causes so much neglect, pain and destruction. Strength, goodness and justice are to be cherished.
LostOne4Ever
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