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“Conscience of the world”: Elie Wiesel is dead: The world mourns … – ABC Online

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The Holocaust survivors and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel is dead. He died at the age of 87 years in the US, reported Israeli media and the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem on Saturday night.

Wiesel son Elisha confirmed the death of his father, as the US radio station NPR reported. According to information of the “New York Times” the writer died at his home in Manhattan. About the cause of death was initially unknown.



Great mourning in the Jewish world community

His death triggered not only in Israel and the Jewish world community of great sorrow. Born in Romania in 1928 Wiesel survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His parents and his youngest sister had been killed by the Nazis. For decades, the New York writer ( “Today Jew” “The Night”) was used for the memory of the Holocaust.

After 1945 Wiesel came via Strasbourg to Paris. There he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and literature and worked as a journalist later. To write Wiesel found through an encounter with the French poet François Mauriac. In 1956 he joined as a UN rapporteur to New York. Later he was a professor of literature, philosophy and Judaism at New York’s City College. In 1986 he received the Nobel Peace Prize.



mourning in Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the extraordinary personality of the 87-year-olds. “The State of Israel and the Jewish people mourn deeply to Elie Wiesel,” Netanyahu said. “The word artist Elie has with his extraordinary personality and his fascinating books embodies the triumph of human spirit over the cruelty and evil.”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin honored Wiesel as a fighter against all forms of hatred. “Elie Wiesel embodied the determination of the human spirit to conquer the darkest hell and all odds to survive despite,” Rivlin said.



“conscience of the world”

US President Barack Obama praised Wiesel as “one of the great moral Simmen our time” and “conscience of the world”. Wiesel was not only one of the most prominent Holocaust survivors have been, it was said in an unusually detailed statement of the President. “He was a living memorial.”

In a message of condolence to the widow Wiesel President Joachim Gauck spoke of a great loss. “We have lost a great man and extraordinary scholar and writer,” Gauck said in the broadcast by the Federal President in the night of Sunday letter. Wiesel have understood it, “as a witness to keep the memory of the darkest years of German history and to warn young people in particular about the dangers of right-wing extremism and xenophobia”

Steinmeier:. “A tireless fighter against hatred, intolerance and violence “

The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said:” with Elie Wiesel not only a great author, philanthropist and scholar goes from us, but above all a tireless fighter against hatred, intolerance and violence “, the SPD politician said in Berlin.

Melinda Gates, who runs with her husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, a foundation to fight poverty and disease, expressed on Twitter her” deep sorrow “. Wiesel have kept his optimism in the darkest times and others by getting them to see “the Beautiful in humanity”.



“teacher of humanity”

The International Auschwitz Committee marked the Auschwitz survivors as “teacher of humanity”. “Elie Wiesel was no way too far and did not raise low, to learn about the horrors and crimes of Auschwitz people,” said Christoph Heubner, Vice Executive President of the survivors organization in Oswiecim.

The Nobel Peace Shimon Peres recalled Wiesel as someone who has always against forgetting. “Wiesel has his mark on humanity leave by obtaining and holding up the legacy of the Holocaust.”



“Elie Wiesel was the common moral compass of the Jewish people”

showed the Jewish World Congress dismay at the death Wiesel. “Elie Wiesel was one of the great Jewish teachers and thinkers of the past 100 years,” President Ronald S. Lauder said in Brussels. “He taught us about Judaism, Israel and over, are not to be silent in the face of injustice.”

The Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, Wiesel called someone who had changed the world. The head of the Jewish Agency, which is responsible for immigration to Israel, Nathan Sharansky and his wife Avital shared at night to Sunday: “Elie Wiesel was the common moral compass of the Jewish people (…) We are very him. . missing “

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