美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering Elie Wiesel, In His Words

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: 

A number of influential¹ people died in 2016, and we're taking a moment now to remember one of them, a man who dedicated² his life to making sure the world would never forget.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: 

Elie Wiesel survived concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was 16 when he was liberated³, bearing the tattoo⁴ A7713 on his arm and the horrors of the Nazis⁵ in his memory. He wrote dozens of books. He gave hundreds of lectures. He spoke⁶ out for those who were hated and persecuted⁷.

SHAPIRO: During an interview with WHYY's FRESH AIR in 1988, Elie Wiesel explained to Terry Gross why he chose to make that his life's work.

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ELIE WIESEL: What else could one do having gone through certain events? I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed. I mean naturally the human being wants to forget pain.

In this case, all those or most of those who went through the experience during the war - they want to remember more and more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story, and no one can tell the story fully⁸.

TERRY GROSS, BYLINE⁹: Did you know when you got out of the camps that you wanted to write?

WIESEL: Oh, I knew that I was going to write before I entered the camps. I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and everyone who was there is a true witness. Others who are trying to speak about the subject occasionally are false witnesses. And I felt that I had to be a true witness, and therefore, I decided¹⁰ to wait for 10 years, not to speak about it or to use language related to these experiences until I knew that the words were true words.

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SIEGEL: Holocaust¹¹ survivor¹², human rights defender¹³ and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel - he died in July at his home in Manhattan at age 87.