Elie Wiesel American-Romanian writer Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. Wikipedia Born : September 30, 1928, Sighetu Marmației, Romania Died : July 2, 2016, Upper East Side, New York City, New York, United States Parents : Sarah Feig , Shlomo Wiesel Plays : The Trial of God Quotes We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ----- Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she l