Elie Wiesel

President Barack Obama toured Buchenwald with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. President Barack Obama toured Buchenwald with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel . Buchenwald is the camp with Wiesel's own father perished. Afterwards, the president gave a speech commerating those who died in the Nazi concentration camps. From an article at ABC News At the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday afternoon, President Obama spoke about the lessons of the Holocaust after touring the camp with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. “If these trees could talk," Wiesel said to the president on their tour of the camp, which sits on the northern slope of ... Read Full Story

A monument dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims in Romania was inaugurated on Thursday in Bucharest, in the presence of survivors and government officials. The memorial designed by Romanian sculptor Peter Jacobi consists of an austere concrete structure, a column bearing the inscription "Remember" in Hebrew, a star of David and a wheel, symbolizing the Roma community, itself a victim of persecutions and deportation during World War II. "By inaugurating this memorial, Romania reaffirms its determination to assume its past," President Traian Basescu said during the ceremony. "The responsibility for the abuses and crimes targeting the Jewish and the Roma communities between 1940 ... Read Full Story

Romania on Thursday unveiled a monument in memory of some 300,000 Jews and Gypsies killed during the Holocaust in the country, which at times denied that the extermination even happened. President Traian Basescu said it was Romania's duty to "recognize the genocide during World War II" and to honor the victims. Basescu was joined by Holocaust survivors, both Jewish and Gypsies, and other leaders during the unveiling the euro5 million (US$7.35 million) marble and concrete tomblike monument. Romania today has only 6,000 Jews. The country's role in the Holocaust and the deportation of Jews were ignored by the Communists and minimized by subsequent governments ... Read Full Story

I was just reading a Haaretz story about the orchestrated Israeli government campaign against Human Rights Watch in response to the latter’s support for the Goldstone Report. The article noted that Elie Wiesel signed a letter to the Guardian which praised Robert Bernstein’s bitter, disjointed diatribe against HRW in the NY Times Op Ed section. But this passage really stood out: Human Rights Watch said that the criticism has come from right-wing blogs, but also from Israeli non-profit groups, such as NGO Monitor in Jerusalem, which is funded by U.S. donors and includes Elie Wiesel on its advisory board. I can remember when I ... Read Full Story

Sign up for QUIET RIOT FOR DARFUR savedarfur.org/page/event/detail/actnowfordarfur/4vx9m This is an Act Now for Darfur event Elie Wiesel "...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all... Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. Source: ELIE BIO .............................................. OBAMA'S PROMISE TO DARFURIS NEEDS ACTION NOW from ilovemylifesblog on Vimeo . .............................................. If you go to this link at vimeo the above video is in high definition and you can see it in a larger screen or click to see it in a huge screen ... Read Full Story