Dublin Core
Title
To Forget is not an Option
Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
Holocaust -- Study and teaching.
Description
Video of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, professor at Eckerd College, and author of the book Night.
Creator
University of South Florida Libraries, Digital Initiatives and Services.
Source
Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
Publisher
Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida Tampa Library.
Date
2014-02-02
Contributor
HM General Consul
USF World
Rights
[no text]
Relation
F60-00056
Format
video / mp4
Language
English
Type
Moving Image
Identifier
[no text]
Coverage
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
MiniDV
Duration
1:42
Compression
MPEG-4
Producer
University of South Florida Libraries, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center
Director
[no text]
Transcription
What is the alternative? Not to remember? It will give victory—or a sense of victory. It’d be justified, I’m sure. I’m sure an attempt could be made to say, “Look it belongs to the past, nothing to do with us today or for tomorrow, forget it.” Nothing is worse than forgetting. I understand remembering can think it’s wrong, but not to remember is not an option. First of all, to know the story—and it’s—today, so easy to know the story, to learn about it, so many books have been published by all sides; by the victims, by the perpetrators, by the bystanders, by the governments, by civilians, nearly never before has any event caught such a coverage from all viewpoints, from all aspects, from all sides. So it’s easy and not to do so would be to deprive them of—of extraordinary element in education.