In honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), HuffPost Religion is honored to show a particularly moving moment from Bill Moyersâ. 1991 conversation with Elie Wiesel about his concentration camp experiences and the questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
Moyers: How many members of your family perished in the camps?
Wiesel: Innumerable uncles and cousins and- every Jewish family in Eastern Europe really was the same.
Moyers: You lost your mother and your father, your sister-
Wiesel: And my little sister and uncles and cousins and grandmother and grandfather and so many.
Moyers: You said that Himmler and Mengele and the others didn't hate the Jews because- was it because they didn't see you as human or-
Wiesel: We were not human for them. We were what they called "subhumans," and you don't cry when a subhuman cries.
Moyers: A beast, a mineral, an object.
Wiesel: Not even an animal,...
Moyers: How many members of your family perished in the camps?
Wiesel: Innumerable uncles and cousins and- every Jewish family in Eastern Europe really was the same.
Moyers: You lost your mother and your father, your sister-
Wiesel: And my little sister and uncles and cousins and grandmother and grandfather and so many.
Moyers: You said that Himmler and Mengele and the others didn't hate the Jews because- was it because they didn't see you as human or-
Wiesel: We were not human for them. We were what they called "subhumans," and you don't cry when a subhuman cries.
Moyers: A beast, a mineral, an object.
Wiesel: Not even an animal,...
- 19/04/2012
- di Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
- Aol TV.
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