Watch: Elie Wiesel on 'The Perils of Indifference'
The work of Elie Wiesel, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was, before all, concerned with the task of memory, of preserving the horrors of the Holocaust, as well as the beauty of pre-War Jewry in Europe.
But he didn’t just speak about memory for preservation’s sake; Wiesel saw a utility in memory, in how it would inform the way bystanders would act in the face of oppression. Wiesel argued that there was a choice to make in that time, and mere observance was not one of them. To be a bystander was to be complicit in atrocity, while intervention was the highest expression of humanity.
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