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Obama to collaborate with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on book
Newly re-elected President Obama writing ‘book of two friends’ with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel has said he is writing a book with President Obama, fresh from election victory. Speaking to Israeli news site Haaretz, the author, 84, said he was working…
NPR anchor ties term ‘illegal immigrant’ to Nazi Germany
NPR Latino USA anchor María Hinojosa told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Sunday her opposition to the term “illegal immigrant” stemmed from a conversation with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel years ago in which Wiesel said the term was part of the horrors he faced in his youth.…
Author Elie Wiesel returns Hungary’s Order Of Merit after Nazi ‘whitewash’
Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has returned Hungary’s highest honour in protest at the “whitewashing” of its Nazi past, according to a letter published Tuesday. Wiesel said “it has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary’s past,”…
Elie Wiesel calls out Romney on Mormon church’s proxy baptisms
Elie Wiesel, the renowed Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is requesting that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney urge the Mormon church to abandon the practice of posthumous baptisms of non-Mormons. In an interview with The Huffington Post Tuesday, Wiesel addressed the issue after learning that his own name…
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