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Author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel dead | |
2016-07-03 | |
Yad Vashem, the world center for Holocaust research, documentation, education and commemoration, confirmed Wiesel's death in a tweet 'Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel-Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, renowned author,' the museum said on Twitter. Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. At age 15, while pursuing Jewish studies, he and his family were taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister died. Wiesel survived Auschwitz, but was later transferred to Buchenwald, where his farther perished. Wiesel's experiences in the concentration camps became the basis for his book 'Night', which won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel was liberated from the camp in 1945 and went on to study at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1948 until 1951. He became a journalist and learned French, which became the primary language he wrote in for Israeli and French publications. For the next decade he refused to discuss what he had been subjected to during the Holocaust. Later, a rabbi convinced him to document his experience in the camps. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#7 Also, let us not forget that exactly 40 years ago, Operation Entebbe showed the world what it means when Jews are fighting back. |
Posted by: European Conservative 2016-07-03 12:55 |
#6 The Great Jewish philosopher Martin Buber describing his visit of the Jewish cemetery in Worms (the oldest graves are almost a thousand years old). This was in 1933, with the biggest horrors yet to come: "I have stood there and have experienced all myself, all this death has befallen me: all the ashes, all this splittingness, all this soundless groaning is mine; but the covenant has not been terminated. I lie on the ground, tumbled like these stones. But I have not been dismissed. The cathedral is as it is. The graveyard is as it is. But we have not been dismissed." |
Posted by: European Conservative 2016-07-03 12:39 |
#5 After "looking up Judenrat" I found the following: Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum has written: "In the final analysis, the Judenräte had no influence on the frightful outcome of the Holocaust; the Nazi extermination machine was alone responsible for the tragedy, and the Jews in the occupied territories, most especially Poland, were far too powerless to prevent it." |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-07-03 12:06 |
#4 Look up "Mityavnim" or "Judenrat", besoeker. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-03 10:00 |
#3 Thanks EC. - An ancient Jewish prayer sequence regularly recited in the synagogue service, including thanksgiving and praise and concluding with a prayer for universal peace. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-03 07:57 |
#2 |
Posted by: European Conservative 2016-07-03 07:45 |
#1 Not all "Jews" sorry to see him go. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-03 07:23 |