Post by diane9247 on Jul 3, 2016 23:38:16 GMT
Born 1928 in Poland - Died 2016 in New York.
At Buchenwald, Wiesel is at far right. This is a detail of a photo taken by Private H. Miller, U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945, five days after liberation.
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Elie Wiesel was a strong advocate of humility, a quality he knew was in especially short supply among world leaders, and worked tirelessly for peace. His moral power and compassion were admired by people of all faiths and in fact he was often called the world's moral compass. With his son, Elisha, and Nobel Committee chairman Egil Aarvik, receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986:
Rest in peace, great man. The world needs your message now more than ever.
More about Elie Wiesel:
Haaretz
Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Books by Wiesel
The location of Mr. Wiesel's collection of writings is Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
BU Howard Gotlieb Archival Research.kmz (1.23 KB)
Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor who wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night, died Saturday [2 July] at the age of 87...
His death was met with an outpouring of remembrances, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him “a ray of light and an example of humanity that believes in the goodness of man.”
“By bearing witness, he revealed evil many avoided facing,” wrote Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “By never giving up, he made this world better.” President Barack Obama called him “one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world.”
His death was met with an outpouring of remembrances, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him “a ray of light and an example of humanity that believes in the goodness of man.”
“By bearing witness, he revealed evil many avoided facing,” wrote Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “By never giving up, he made this world better.” President Barack Obama called him “one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world.”
At Buchenwald, Wiesel is at far right. This is a detail of a photo taken by Private H. Miller, U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945, five days after liberation.
SourceElie Wiesel was a strong advocate of humility, a quality he knew was in especially short supply among world leaders, and worked tirelessly for peace. His moral power and compassion were admired by people of all faiths and in fact he was often called the world's moral compass. With his son, Elisha, and Nobel Committee chairman Egil Aarvik, receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986:
In a 2012 interview with Haaretz, Wiesel said he would bequeath the archive of his writings to Boston University, where he had taught for decades. Wiesel is survived by his wife Marion, their son Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, and his stepdaughter Jennifer and two grandchildren. [Source]
Rest in peace, great man. The world needs your message now more than ever.
More about Elie Wiesel:
Haaretz
Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Books by Wiesel
The location of Mr. Wiesel's collection of writings is Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
BU Howard Gotlieb Archival Research.kmz (1.23 KB)
