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Rest in Peace Elie Wiesel.
July 2, 2016
"Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and author Elie Wiesel has died at the age of 87.
Wiesel survived the World War II Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After liberation, he went to France, then Israel and the United States, where he advocated on behalf of victims of hate and persecution around the world.
Elie Wiesel was called many things during his life: a messenger of peace, a humanitarian, a survivor. He liked to call himself simply a witness. And as a witness, he said, it was his duty to never let those who suffered be forgotten.
To forget the victims means to kill them a second time," he told NPR in April 2012. "So I couldn't prevent the first death. I surely must be capable of saving them from a second death.....
..Wiesel said the world should never remain silent while humans suffer, for neutrality, he said, only aids the oppressor, never the victim."
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