Obj. ID: 55437
  Memorials  Memorial to Elie Wiesel in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, 2018

Name of Monument

No official name

What/Who is commemorated?

Elie Wiesel

Description

A bronze bust of Elie Wiesel set on a three level base, is set within the side courtyard of the Elie Wiesel Museum, established in the former Wiesel family house. The lowest two levels of the base are horizontal and stepped. A tall pedestal-type base rises from the top of the send level, and the bronze bust of the Nobel Laureate is placed on this. Around the pedestal base, inscribed on the top of the second level of the base, is a quotation from Wiesel’s memoir Night, presented in four languages.

The full quote, not included in the memorial, is “one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, and that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”

Inscriptions

On the upper level of the base of the monument, in English and Hebrew:

Elie Wiesel

1928-2016

אלי ויזל

On the middle level of the base of the monument, in English, French, Romanian, and Hebrew:

“One person of integrity can the difference”

“Une seule personne integre

Peut faire la difference” 

“Un singur om integru poate face diferenta” 

יושרתו של אדם אחד

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