Word: wiesel
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...President of the United States was about to be lectured on morality while a national television audience looked on. It unfolded in the White House Roosevelt Room, crowded with top Administration aides, some 30 Jewish leaders, a sprinkling of Senators and Congressmen. Reagan's deceptively gentle antagonist was Elie Wiesel, 56, a survivor of Nazi death camps, who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement for his life's outpouring of books that detail the savagery of the Nazis and the suffering and courage of their victims...
Turning to the President, who sat just ten feet away, Wiesel politely noted that "a stage of reconciliation has been set in motion between us. We were always on the side of justice, always on the side of memory, against the SS and against what they represent." He said that he was convinced that "you were not aware of the presence of SS graves in the Bitburg cemetery . . . But now we all are aware. May I, Mr. President, if it's possible at all, implore you to do something else, to find another way, another site. That place, Mr. President...
Philosophically, these lacunae point to a fundamental problem of witness itself. For, as Elie Wiesel once put it, “those who have not lived through the experience will never know; those who have will never tell; not really, not completely…The past belongs to the dead...
Previous recipients of the award include more political figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and novelist Elie Wiesel. Although an actor like Stone seems unlikely company for such dignitaries, Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter called Stone “the embodiment of humanitarianism,” referring to her 10 years of AIDS advocacy work as the campaign chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR...
Since my free-writing realization, the Holocaust has continued to resurface in my life. We read a memoir of a survivor in one of my classes, and she came to discuss it. Eli Wiesel spoke at Memorial Church. I wrote another story, this one about a father trying to explain the Holocaust to his five-year-old daughter. I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. And I made the decision to spend my summer researching and teaching about the Holocaust in a museum in Australia—that is, if my funding comes through...