Salvation lies in memory, suggests Elie Wiesel, borrowing religious vocabulary for urgent everyday concerns. Is it obvious, however, that we should associate the memory of wrongs with salvation—or with anything positive, for that matter? I dread, for instance, reliving in memory my long hours of terrifying interrogations in the winter of 1984. The reason is obvious: to relive those experiences is painful, even in memory. When we remember the past, it is not only past;