Elie Wiesel has undoubtedly marked the history of literature and contributed to the recognition of the Holocaust. This Holocaust survivor died at age 87 and his funeral was held on Sunday in New York, where he lived. The ceremony started at around 11 am in a synagogue on the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York to several thousand kilometers from his native Romania. A ballet of black sedans paraded before this anonymous building to drop dozens of people, including the wife of Elie Wiesel, Marion, in a wheelchair. His burial was scheduled in the afternoon.
The disappearance of the famous American Jewish writer was announced Saturday in Jerusalem by the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. Since the announcement of his disappearance, tributes poured in from around the world. “It was extremely moving, especially when the son and grand-son of Elie Wiesel spoke,” said writer and professor of cinema specialist Annette Insdorf after the ceremony. “It made it very personal loss of a being that existed for everyone,” she added. During the ceremony, the television journalist Ted Koppel recalled Elie Wiesel “loved to laugh,” he was always fond of a “good story,” said Annette Insdorf.
A “hero”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised his memory, saying in a statement it was “a ray of light and an example of humanity that believes in the goodness of man.” “Elijah, master of words, expressed by its unique personality and fascinating books the victory of humanity over cruelty and evil,” added the Prime Minister. “The State of Israel and the Jewish people weep bitterly death of Elie Wiesel. “He was a” hero of the Jewish people, “said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
” Elijah was not only the most famous Holocaust survivor, he was a living memorial, said the US President Barack Obama. His life and the force of his example encourage us to be better. “For the US Secretary of State John Kerry, the words of Elie Wiesel” carried the weight of an experience that can not and must not be forgotten, “the experience of tragic events” that we are all called prevent today. “
Tributes in Europe
French President Francois Hollande welcomed” the memory of a great humanist, tireless advocate of peace. ” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that with the death of “one of the most outstanding personalities of the last century”, “a voice of morality and humanity has been silenced.” “Elie Wiesel has reached out to us to us Germans, and worked with us tirelessly to make possible a better world,” she said.
A survivor of the Nazi death camps, Elie Wiesel has dedicated his life to the memory of the Holocaust and the struggle against indifference, intolerance and injustice.
Refusal of silence
“forgetting is not a single disease but a collective, “he thought. “To prevent oblivion” of the Holocaust and promoting understanding between peoples, this “messenger of humanity” as described the Nobel Committee, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, with his wife and the universal Academy of cultures. Elie Wiesel has often denounced the responsibility of leaders who “knew” the fate of the deported Jews, including Roosevelt and Churchill. In 1979, President Carter had shown him the pictures taken in late 1942 by US military planes flying over Auschwitz.
He is committed to many causes, for he had “made a vow after war always, wherever a human being would be persecuted, (he) will dwell (t) not silent “
a survivor of the death camps
Born September 30, 1928. in Sighet, Romania (then Transylvania), in a poor family, Elie Wiesel was deported at age 15 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where his mother and younger sister were murdered. His father died before him to Buchenwald, where they were transferred. On leaving the camp in 1945, he was raised in France by the OSE (Jewish relief work for children) and saw up to 28 years, in 1956. After studying philosophy at the Sorbonne, he became a journalist and writer. François Mauriac preface his first novel, Night (1958), about his memories of deported children, followed by fifteen others (French, English, Hebrew and Yiddish) three plays and numerous tests.
US citizen since 1963, Elie Wiesel has long occupied the humanities Chair of the University of Boston and split her time between the United States, France and Israel. Elie Wiesel, who refused in 2006 the presidency of the State of Israel, saying it was “a writer” had confirmed six years later, a book project with President Obama. He had returned to Auschwitz in 2006 with the star of the US television Oprah Winfrey. He also accompanied Obama and Merkel in Buchenwald.
“After that we walked together among the barbed son and watchtowers Buchenwald Elie told me words I have never forgotten : the memory has become a sacred duty of all people of good will “Barack Obama said Saturday
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