Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of the book "Night," once told an interviewer: "I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory and remembrance."
As we honor the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, we are reminded why the Nobel laureate dedicated his life to memory and remembrance.
Wiesel believed the only way to prevent unspeakable horrors like what took place at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps was to make the world fully comprehend how the tragedy of the Nazis' systematic mass murder of 6 million Jewish people came about.
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