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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...
...Wiesel remembered the Jews who "simply vanished from human memory" in the Holocaust, especially the 1.5 million children who perished in the death camps...
...Wiesel and other speakers at the ceremony told the lesson of the Holocaust is learned, then the former out against injustice today...