Posted on 07/02/2016 2:33:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday.
Wiesel, a philosopher, speaker, playwright and professor who also campaigned for the tyrannized and forgotten around the world, was 87.
The Romanian-born Wiesel lived by the credo expressed in "Night," his landmark story of the Holocaust - "to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
In awarding the Peace Prize in 1986, the Nobel Committee praised Wiesel as a "messenger to mankind" and "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world."
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May this great man rest in peace, may his family be comforted by his great accomplishments, and may people learn from him how to treat their fellow man.
His political views were not mine, not by a long shot, but those differ from his deeds.
A true scholar and courageous man who survived the horror of the Holocaust. May his words live on and others learn from his writings. RIP.
I read that as part of a “Philosophy of Evil” course I took in college. Needed to squeeze a few credits in between semesters. In the three-week course we had to read a book every two or three days. That one stuck out in my mind all these years. Another one was “Kristus och Judas” about the necessity of Judas’ role in leading to Christ’s redemption. Somewhat similar argument as in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy.
Requiescet in pacem. Mr. Wiesel and I met at a school event in Berkeley in 1995. He was very humble, cheerful and talkative. He seemed interested in the work of the students.
Requiescet in pacem. Mr. Wiesel and I met at a school event in Berkeley in 1995. He was very humble, cheerful and talkative. He seemed interested in the work of the students.
Amen.
Irony never ceases to amaze me. Put into a concentration camp by the Left the man one day becomes a Leftist.
Book ‘Night’ is fiction.
Schindler’s List is fiction.
Annie Frank diary was allegedly penned by a relative.
Out of respect for the Jews who died horrifically, my preference still is the true accounts.
RIP, Elie Wiesel.
I agree. “Night” rocked my world.
Thanks Alas Babylon!.
There’s two versions... I’m reading the translation by his wife - it’s closer to the original.
May his memory be a blessing
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