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TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid across the world to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who has died at the age of 87.
The Nobel Laureate was responsible for writing about his experiences in the Holocaust and the unspeakable horrors he witnessed as a young boy.
Wiesel, who settled in New York, wrote about his experiences in his Nobel Prize-winning memoir Night. In total, the professor and scholar wrote 57 books. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighetu, Transylvania, and in 1944 Germany’s occupation of Hungary extended the Holocaust into the town where Wiesel was raised. Two ghettos were set up in Sighetu and Jews were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“We thought that when the deportation will come, it will mean simply that we will be taken inside Hungary,” remembered Wiesel in an interview with Oprah in 1993. “No one in the world has told us, has warned us that there is a place called Auschwitz. When we arrived in Auschwitz, May 1944, three weeks before D-Day, we didn’t know what it meant.
“If I’m angry at times, profoundly angry, it is because we could have been saved. The largest community still alive in Europe, the Hungarian Jewish community could have been saved, if not in its totality in its great part, because the Russians were 20 kms away from us.”
Wiesel’s mother and sister were killed at Auschwitz, but Wiesel and his father were sent on to another concentration camp at Buchenwald. His father died there. The camp was liberated in 1944, and Wiesel was said to have been captured in this photograph of Buchenwald.
It took around a decade for Wiesel to begin discussing what happened to him during WWII, but in 1955 Night was printed, going on to sell 10 million copies in the United States alone.
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity was founded by Wiesel and his wife Marion Erster Rose in the mid-1980s.
Wiesel died at his home in Manhattan yesterday.
Today, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the memory of the late Wiesel will be “enshrined in our hearts and in the heart of humanity forever.”
He opened his weekly Cabinet meeting with an appreciation of Wiesel as one of the “giants of the Jewish people”.
Though he never lived in Israel, news of Wiesel’s death sparked an outpouring of grief among Israelis who consider him one of their own.
- Additional reporting AP
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A real colossus of history..to survive Auschwitz and live to a ripe old age…a decent man.
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” Indifference , to me, is the epitome of evil ” Elie Wiesel
These holocaust survivors are an important reminder of how messed up us humans can behave given the wrong circumstances. It’s sand to think that it won’t be long before there is no one left to tell the story.
Tweety…we still have Tomi Reichental in Ireland….he does great work going around schools talking and answering questions about his experiences…one of my boys met him.
Have to agree Rob Israel the only democracy in the Middle East The Two million Isreali Arabs living there enjoy human and legal rights denied them in most Arab countries
Zionist headcases surrounded by Islamist head hackers.
Two lunatic groups chopping each-other to bits in the desert.
My grandfather died in auswitz.
Do you think Ironballs that your grandfather would appreciate how Zionists use the Holocaust as an excuse to do anything and be above reproach? And shut down debate for that matter?
What Any right thinking person is doing living anywhere near the $hithole that is the Middle East is beyond me
@Rob O’Brien …………Except that the smaller group through creativity and hard work packs a mighty punch that can protect itself and others while contributing to the world in every way including disaster relief,terror control technology,etc,etc.,etc. The other group just live off the UN and allows its parasitic terror leaders to get richer by the $Billions while they throw rockets at Israeli kindergartens(yesterday) and stab to death 13 yr old girls asleep in bed(3 days ago).
Show an example of Israeli govt. policy to hack non-Jews to pieces.
Your analogy is remarkably similar to that other Jew-Hater Corbyn who compared Israel to ISIS- a remark that will finish him off for good.
Ironballs, very good lol
They still live as second class citizens Rob, based solely on their religion, just because they could be worse of in another country will never make that right.
Wrong as usual Patrick OConnor, we had the lie about Corbyn on here the other day, he never mentions ISIS in his remarks, it is on video for anyone who cares to look it up.
@Gavan Duffy……………Then why make a grovelling apology. Just shows that all Jew-haters are grovelling cowards like their Nazi pals in Nazi Germany
….”Labour make grovelling apology after Jeremy Corbyn compares Israel to ISIS
LABOUR has been forced to make a grovelling apology to the Israel’s ambassador after Jeremy Corbyn compared his country to brutal Islamic State jihadists—”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/685463/Labour-Jeremy-Corbyn-compares-Israel-ISIS
Patrick OConnor, as I said , his remarks are on video for everyone to see, he never mentions ISIS. Your hysterical posts have been disproven too many times on here for anyone to take you seriously, if you really want to help Israel,a country you claim to admire and care about, posting lies and misinformation is the wrong way to go about it, they will always be disproven , sooner or later. I suggest you read some of the true Israeli patriots who can see how the occupation is destroying their country, try Uri Avnery or Amira Hass and ditch the cut and paste quisling quotes and alternate fantasy history you usually subject us to.
@Gavan Duffy…………You haven’t answered my question! Why make an apology if he didn’t say it?
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…”The UK Labour Party has offered Israeli ambassador Mark Regev an apology after party head Jeremy Corbyn implicitly compared Israel and ISIS, Associated Press reports.
Last week, Corbyn told an anti-Semitism conference that Jews are “no more responsible for the actions of Israel” than Muslims are for ISIS terrorists….”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/214425#.V3lXs_krLIU
Ah Patrick you ask “Show an example of Israeli govt. policy to hack non-Jews to pieces?” ever heard of the Gaza Strip? I’d say firing mortars and rockets a civilians is the same as hacking a Jew to death…..
@Kerry Blake ……..What I meant is some quotable policy such as below by Arab official prior to invaion of Israel 1948
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…”Their combined intention (of the 5 Arab States)was expressed publicly by Azzam Pesha, Secretary General of the Arab League on May 15: “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian masssacres and the Crusades.” In other words, the Arabs threatened not just individuals but of a nation, namely, genocide. According to international law, genocide is a crime against humanity.”[29]…”
http://www.meforum.org/3082/azzam-genocide-threat
So Patrick no response on my question about the Gaza strip……
@Kerry Blake …….Do you mean that stupid question-”Have I ever heard of the Gaza strip/”
The ans. is ”Yes”. And as recently as yesterday when rockets fired from said Gaza strip hit an Israeli kindergarten wounding some persons.Fortunately early warning allowed many to avoid death by scrambling to safety.
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Rocket fired by ISIS-linked group hits children’s center in Sderot
Rocket seriously damages child care center in southern Israeli town of Sderot on Friday night • Three people treated for symptoms of shock • Islamic State-linked Salafi group takes responsibility • In response, IAF strikes four terrorist sites in Gaza….”
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34723
So again you have not answered my question. Take your time I’m sure it’s difficult for you…
Having visited the Nazi death camps in Germany I’d have to say in all honestly Mulqueen you have absolutely no clue about what you are talking about.
Patrick O Connor ,you really should read the articles before you post links to them, the Labour spokesperson apologised for any offence that might have been mistakenly taken, but reiterated that there was never any mention of ISIS I his speech. As I said earlier Patrick , you are doing more harm than good to Israel by your continued misinformation.
“alleged Nazi Homicidal Gas Chamber” again Mulqueen I just have to say you have no clue about what you are talking about and as a kind suggestion stop embarrassing yourself.
Holocaust deniers and Jew-haters do exist,mostly on right-wing websites.
http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=64119#comment-584774
The whole ‘Labour anti-Semitism scandal’ was utter nonsense; a witch hunt, and very obviously so.
President…im not rude,cruel,vindictive,nasty or insulting to people i bump into on the journal…life is too short and i dont have it in me….but you have personalised it now.My oldest son met Mr Reichental…hes not brainwashed OR a zionist slave…you repeatedly regurgitate the exact same rubbish,do us all a favour…go visit Ponari,Dachau,Babi Yar,Mauthausen,Natzweiler,Stutthof,Maidanek,Treblinka,Sobibor,Auschwitz – Birkenau,Neungamme or a 100 more extermination centres i could name…cop yourself on,you arent wanted here,get psychiatric advice….seriously..i respect revisionist historians but you arent one of them.dont come now,you hear?
Petr, you are not a fan of Jewish people yourself. You refer to the people of Israel as zionists. So once again you are contradicting yourself.
Good ole Patrick The Zionist Defender Extraordinaire.
As usual, commentators on the journal cannot stay focused on the story itself. This article is about the man himself, nazi Germany and what he endured in the holocaust. It’s about his life and his past. And yes to never forget and to make sure it never happens again. But idiots on the journal go off on all these tangents.
RIP
Hopefully if their is a hierarchy in the Hereafter Elie Wiesel will be high up there out of sight of the Whingers,Whiners and Jew-haters that make life painful for all those who tried to live a productive life.
Give it a rest
May he RIP
Will the FBI finally get the chance to search for his Auschwitz Tattoo, before he is cremated?
The Schutzstaffel members had tattoos also…their blood group on their upper inner arms…very useful when they were wounded and needed blood.
What’s wrong with ye Fechter?
Was it his “jewishness” that suggested he was also a rapist?
Rob…im not implying anything and i applaud questioning historical icons ie Kurt Waldheim and Menachim Begin and your man that used to run the jewish center in Vienna but whos name i cant remember right now…the premier Nazi hunter…Simon Wiesenthal! Just came to me…
Ha! I see the journo’s went on a comments purge.
You see Fechter when specific subjects are above debate I get curious.
Rob..i agree..nothing should be above debate…
Wiesenthal?
I was just checking the “local” news (I’ve been incommunicado) and am just hearing of the passing of this gentleman. Naturally, I assumed that Mulqueen would pop up somewhere here and, true to form, he has.
I’m in fighting form but he’s not giving me much to go on this time around. In fact, he’s positively tame. Perhaps he followed up on my reading suggestions from the our last exchange? My faith in humanity is restored!
Did the jews make the gas xylon5 for the gas chambers?
Zyklon B.
My great grandad died 16.8.17? Why isn’t he remembered? Is he less? Is his sacrifice less? Is he less? Tell me.
Dognut…how did your grandad die?
He died in Ypres.
Read Orlando Figes “The Whisperers” if u really want to decipher that period. Saying nothing after this.
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