Word: wiesel
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Author Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony, which also featured remarks from Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66, Boston Mayor Thomas A. Menino and an ecumenical collection of local religious leaders...
...Mentorial] evokes the watch towers [at the camps]," said Wiesel, whose haunting book Night recalls his experience in Nuchwitz...
...Wiesel sharply criticized those who did nothing to stop the Holocaust, including the American government, who he pointed out could have made the decision to Lomb the rail tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau...
...polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
...Wiesel meant, in part, to audition the future while it is still in its teens. He told the young, "Some of us have access to the leaders of the world. But all the meetings we have had have been disappointments. So we wanted to start before you become leaders...