Elie Wiesel dies at age 87 - History - WORLD

The Nobel Peace Prize recipient who lost much of his family in the Nazi death camps has passed away. I don't think Elie Wiesel would have imagined in his youth what he would spend the bulk of his life doing. Hunting escaped Nazi's around the world was his passion and bringing the to justice was his forte.
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"Elie Wiesel dies at age 87
OBITUARY | The author and Nobel Peace Prize winner remembered for baring witness to the evil he experienced in a Nazi concentration camp
by Maria Baer
Posted 7/02/16, 04:47 pm
Auschwitz survivor Eliezar “Elie” Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died Saturday at age 87. The Yad Vashiem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem announced Wiesel’s death in a tweet Saturday afternoon. No other details were immediately available.
In 1944, a few months after the Nazis invaded his hometown of Sighet, Romania, German soldiers loaded 15-year-old Wiesel, his parents, and his three sisters onto a cattle car bound for concentration camps. He spent nearly a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The Nazis murdered his mother, younger sister, and father. Prisoner number A-7713, Wiesel, survived. American soldiers liberated the camps in 1945.
Wiesel once wrote, “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: His duty is to bear witness.” Wiesel obeyed that mandate. He wrote 57 books throughout his life, many about the Nazi destruction of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
Barely a week into his hospital stay after being rescued from Auschwitz, Wiesel began the work of remembering his torture. He started to write down what happened, but promised himself he wouldn’t reveal it immediately. Ten years later, Night came out.
Wiesel credited the horrors of the concentration camp with having “consumed my faith forever.” He wrote extensively about Jewish themes, human brokenness, and God, to whom he prayed for “strength to ask Him the right questions.”
Wiesel was chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust during the Jimmy Carter administration and the founding chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and more than 100 honorary degrees from colleges and universities.
In 1986, Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy for marginalized groups, including Holocaust victims, Soviet Jews, Cambodian refugees, and African genocide victims. Shortly after winning the award, he founded The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which promotes “acceptance, understanding, and equality.”
Wiesel’s intense memory of horror was his weapon against an evil history repeated. We must always remember, he said, lest in our forgetting we become accomplices. He wrote that even after his death, his testimony would continue its work: “The brain will be buried, but memory will survive it.” @COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Christopher Mueller Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SSG Leo Bell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert Hawks SGT Robert George SrA Christopher Wright SPC Corbin Sayi Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM