Hope, Despair and Memory: Elie Wiesel, "50 Year Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Speech," 1995

    Hope, Despair and Memory: Elie Wiesel, "50 Year Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Speech," 1995

      Nine years later, Elie Wiesel delivered a memorial speech at the grounds of Auschwitz concentration camp that carried much of the same spirit of the "Hope, Despair and Memory" speech.

      The central point that this speech wove around was remembering the nightmares that happened there, in order for their children to never have to know them firsthand. The generational call is actually really interesting, because it provides another level into the whole remembering message. The call here is to actively move injustice not only into the past, but specifically into the realm of memory. If we learn from our mistakes as a group, then all we'll even have to do with injustice is remember it.