The true role of Holocaust remembrance must not be distorted
The true role of Holocaust remembrance must not be distorted
The Shoah was perpetrated against real, resilient Jews who wanted to live, not a mass of faceless ‘victims.’
(January 27, 2021 / JNS) Elie Wiesel penned his first memoir about being a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps while traveling on a ship from Europe to Brazil in 1954.
Later, reworking those initial Yiddish words into a longer text in French, he adopted a much more measured tone than that of his original wrathful writing, the aim of which was not only to remember, but also, essentially, to seek revenge.