COLIN POWELL: Elie became a great spokesman for all people who are persecuted and all people who are in desperate need. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. He defeated a Syrian expedition and reconsecrated the Temple in Jerusalem (c. 165 B.C.). ''No one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions,'' he said, his voice, as ever, a tenacious wisp. And then too, the people around us refused to listen; and even those who listened refused to believe; and even those who believed could not comprehend. "Fifty-four years ago to of day, a junior Jewish boy from a minor town in to Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far out Goethe's my Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald." These were the opening words a "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel - a holocaust survivor, author, philosopher and intellectual. If God wishes to remember our suffering, all will be well; if He refuses, all will be lost. Its mission is to advance the cause of human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a new forum for the discussion of urgent ethical issues confronting humanity. as truth -- painful as it is -- in Buchenwald. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. He stayed and fought in the camps until he was liberated by American soldiers in 1945. Its power lies in the combination of phenomenal rhetoric, shocking historical truths, a call for political and social action, and of course, the unique stirring personal story of the speaker. In his acceptance speech, he said, "I swore never . Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. Men and women from every corner of Europe were suddenly reduced to nameless and faceless creatures desperate for the same ration of bread or soup, dreading the same end. Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. You denounce it. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Website by Eighty6. His parents, Sarah and Shlomo, and younger sister, Tzipora, were killed. How to explain any of it: the outrage of Apartheid which continues unabated. After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again. A great man, He was a driving force behind the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 20024-2126 Elie Wiesel | Academy of Achievement Nobel Prize Speech - The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity The second is entitled And the Sea is Never Full (1999).
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