Word: wiesel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Polls suggest more than half of France will follow the trial closely and perhaps three-quarters of all French people think that Barbie must be judged, however embarrassing the testimony. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor, echoed the thoughts of many French in a recent television interview: The verdict is not important, Wiesel said, but the events must be brought to light...
ESSAY: Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel examines the trial of Klaus Barbie...
...Paris. He would not speak out about the unspeakable for ten years. When that self-imposed vow of silence ended, he devoted his life to writing and talking, with rare eloquence and power, about the despair of the past and the concerns of the present. Now a U.S. citizen, Wiesel, 56, has written some 30 books and is widely acknowledged, in the words of the Nobel committee chairman, as a "messenger to mankind." Later this month he will testify in the case of The State of France v. Klaus Barbie...
...concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium by his 14-year-old son Shlomo Elisha, the Nobel laureate had to pause to regain his composure before addressing the audience of dignitaries. "Do I have the right...
That loudspeaker will amplify his thoughts on a range of issues, including the nuclear arms race. Reagan and Gorbachev ought to meet for a summit in Hiroshima, he suggests: "That would be a poetic way of dealing with politics." Uppermost, however, is Wiesel's role as a witness to the century's central catastrophe. "I'm afraid that the horror of that period is so dark, people are incapable of understanding, incapable of listening," he says. The Nobel Prize is a sign, perhaps, that people are at least trying to comprehend...