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title: "2 Ellie Wiesel Quotes"
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# Ellie Wiesel

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the

##  Quotes by Ellie Wiesel

> [“Infants were tossed up in the air and used as the targets for machine guns”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellie-wiesel/infants-were-tossed-up-in-the-air-and-used-as-the-targets-for-machine/)

[Ellie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellie-wiesel/)

[Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/)

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> [“And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellie-wiesel/and-then-there-was-no-longer-any-reason-for-me-to-fast-i-no-longer/)

[Ellie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellie-wiesel/)

[Religion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/)

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