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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
Obama rebukes Iranian leader's Holocaust denial - trip to Nazi camp builds on totalitarianism warning. guardian.co.uk Kate Connolly in Berlin Friday 5 June 2009 19.31 BST Barack Obama visited a former Nazi concentration camp which his great-uncle helped to liberate, laid a white rose at a memorial to its victims, and described the site where 56,000 people died as the "ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers. After seeing the crematoriums, guard towers and barbed-wire fences, and a clock set at... 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... Read Full Story
For the first time in many many years, I am proud to be an American.Thank you President Obama "Obama at Buchenwald: a ‘rebuke’ to deniers June 5, 2009 BERLIN ( JTA ) -- President Barack Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp site, calling it "the ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers. Obama joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust memoirist who was a Buchenwald inmate, on the tour on Friday, a day after Obama called on the Muslim world to reject... Read Full Story
Elie Wiesel (pictured right) is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Beggar in Jerusalem (Prix Médicis winner), The Testament (Prix Livre Inter winner), The Fifth Son (winner of the Grand Prize in Literature from the City of Paris), and two volumes of his memoirs. For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and... Read Full Story
Elie Wiesel Mocked at J Street Conference The "independent" blogger panel at J Street's conference can only be described as clownish. The panel consisted mostly of crackpots and self-described anti-Zionists and "one-staters" (J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami calls the one-state solution a "nightmare," but it seems to be the dream of many of the organization's supporters). Though J Street tried to distance itself from the panel by describing it as an "unofficial" and "independent" event, the... Read Full Story
Well, actually no.
He didn’t have ME fooled for one second.
Unfortunately he did fool someone else.
So shame Shame SHAME! on the judge who gave this anti-Semite asshat a break from well-deserved jailtime with ‘credits for time served and good behavior’ after he gave Holocaust survivor, scholar and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel a beatdown in a San Francisco elevator two years ago.
Shame on him, indeed.
Because that sick trick ———->
is at it again.
In a lawsuit filed in... Read Full Story
