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Elie Wiesel asks 'Why?'

Elie Wiesel asks 'Why?'

In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate for Peace since 1986, tells the story of a television interview in which he was asked what he would say to God if he could talk to him. His answer was: "I would say one word. Why?"

Why did He allow six million Jews to be slaughtered?

There is no answer, just as there is no answer to the question Elie Wiesel put to me some 40 years ago.

He asked me, "how is it in 1944, my father, a leader of the Jewish community in Siget, Romania never heard of Auschwitz?" They were totally surprised when they arrived at the platform in Birkenau and his mother and little sister were led...