Back in 1974 there was a meeting of
1,200 Christian & Jewish leaders in New
York to
discuss "the holocaust — the term given
to the Nazi murder of six million Jews."
One of the keynote speakers was his
Holicaustness Elie Wiesel, following are
a few quotes from
an article in the North Country Catholic
newspaper, July 10, 1974 about Wiesel
performance:
Christian spokesmen, who were shouldering much responsibility for 2,000 years of Christian anti-Semitism said privately that they felt "threatened" and "guilty."
Wiesel, speaking before 1,200 emotion-charged Christians and Jews, began his address with the admission, "I do not feel at ease in a church."
Wiesel, whose parents and sister did not survive Auschwitz, recalled that as a child "I did not pass the church. "I changed sidewalks because twice a year we Jewish kids were beaten up by our fellow schoolmates who were leaving church on Easter and Christmas."
... Wiesel pointed out, the Jewish slaughter did happen and "those who killed felt no tension between their killings and their faith."
"Anyone today who is helping us forget what happened is an accomplice to the executioner." Wiesel said.
Wiesel said it was the absence of love which proved the final torture to the holocaust victims. After resisting death so long.
Wiesel said 700 children of the holocaust died after the liberation. "They discovered that the world knew and was indifferent. And they did not want to live in such a world. So they let themselves die."
