“Today, we mourn the loss of legendary New Yorker, author and activist Elie Wiesel”, Cuomo said in the news release.
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A private funeral has been held at a NY synagogue for World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 b.
People embrace outside the Fifth Avenue Synagogue during the funeral for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in NY on July 3, 2016.
A hearse was seen outside the Orthodox Jewish synagogue and mourners were arriving around 10 a.m.
“Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world”, President Obama said in a statement.
Among the attendees was Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial says Elie Wiesel has died at 87. Wiesel and his wife Marion were honored by the League with the Jabotinsky Award Courageous Jewish Leadership in 2013.
Wiesel was well known for his memoir “Night“, in which he wrote about his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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“The state of Israel and the Jewish people express sorrow over the death of Elie Wiesel”.
