02-07-2016 22:23 via seattletimes.com

Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust memory keeper, dead at 87

Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the 6 million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died Saturday at home in Manhattan. He was 87. Menachem Rosensaft, a longtime friend and founding chairman of the International […]
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