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Date: 2013-05-11. 'To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.' (Elie Wiesel) This talk will focus on the purpose of Holocaust memorials and discuss a variety of issues surrounding Holocaust memorialisation. The memorials ...

Editor's Note: Today marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was Elie Wiesel's idea to make this an institution of learning rather than a simple memorial. Michael Schulder, host of the " CNN Profiles " radio show, sat ...

About "Change of Subject." "Change of Subject" by Chicago Tribune op-ed columnist Eric Zorn contains observations, reports, tips, referrals and tirades, though not necessarily in that order. Links will tend to expire, so seize the day. For an ...

A Yeshiva University (YU) student writing on Hurricane Sandy won first place in the 2013 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics essay contest, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity announced. The contest has taken place since 1989. Gavriel Brown, YU Class of ...

Matthew Angelo begins his lesson on Elie Wiesel's novel "Night" with a primer on the Holocaust. After going over terms such as antisemitism, concentration camp and genocide, the second-year English teacher at Robison Middle School has several of his ...

Some 1,000 survivors and World War II veterans convene with President Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel to mark the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's 20th anniversary. Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are ...

One of the most famous public scoldings of a U.S. president

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel will visit the University of Chicago on May 22 for a conversation with David Axelrod, director of the UChicago Institute of Politics. Wiesel, the author of more than 60 books of fiction and non-fiction, will ...

Michelle Obama congratulates Elie Wiesel at a White House on receipt of the National Humanities Medal in 2010- Tracy A. Woodward/the Washington Post Amid the discussion of the feckless White House stance toward Syria and its implications for ...