Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speaking About Lessons of Holocaust

Sam Penrod ReportingHolocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel is in Utah today, speaking about the lessons learned from the Holocaust, and how they are still critical today.

It's been more than 60 years since the horrors of the Holocaust. One man who survived it, has made it his life's mission to make sure it is never forgotten.

Elie Wiesel: "I believe indifference helps those who are evil, gain strength and use their strength to do evil, torture, torment, humiliate, kill. And so I have devoted almost all of my adult life to fight indifference."

As a survivor of the holocaust, Wiesel says he is extremely concerned about the hatred in the world today.

Elie Wiesel: "The 21st century is already threatened, already mainly by fanaticism, and therefore, we must unmask it, disarm it, denounce it, and if possible, limit its realm, its boundaries, its power."

Elie Wiesel is making a rare visit to Utah to give a lecture at Snow College about his fight for human dignity.

Michael Benson, President of Snow College: "To have someone who has experienced what he has, and written about it, and felt the obligation to tell the world his story, is truly significant."

In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His book "Night" is recognized as one of the most important books on the Holocaust.

Wiesel believes the world more than ever now, needs to be more accepting of each other.

Elie Wiesel: " I write and I teach to sensitize, to be sensitive to the other person, the other person's life, the other person's fear, the other person's hope."

And when humanity will show respect, Wiesel says that will give the world hope.

Wiesel speaks tonight at 7:00 at Snow College in Ephraim, as part of the school's Tanner Lecture series.

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