Israel’s prime minister says the memory of the late Nobel laureate, author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel will be “enshrined in our hearts and in the heart of humanity forever”.
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Wiesel, 87, died on Saturday at his home in New York City.
In this September 12, 2012, photo Elie Wiesel is photographed in his office in NY. Like Wiesel, he was 87.
A news release on the governor’s site explains that “it is fitting” that the spire of the World Trade Center, which was built as a response to terrorism, be lit in honor of Wiesel, who spent his life fighting hate.
A hearse was seen outside the Orthodox Jewish synagogue and mourners were arriving around 10 a.m. Among them was former national director of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman.
“He carried a message universally, he carried the Jewish pain, the message of Jewish tragedy to the world but he took it way beyond”.
Wiesel was well known for his memoir “Night”, in which he wrote about his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said, “With the passing of Elie Wiesel, the world has lost a great and wise man; those who fight injustice have lost a daily inspiration…” Another Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Hungary’s Imre Kertesz, died earlier this year. “Well now he’s a little closer”.
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Mr Wiesel also backed Israeli annexation of Jerusalem, insisting that “it belongs to the Jewish people and is much more than a city”.
