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In April 1999, Wiesel delivered the speech "The Perils of Indifference" in Washington D.C., criticizing the people and countries who chose to be indifferent while the Holocaust was happening. [59] He defined indifference as being neutral between two sides, which, in this case, amounts to overlooking the victims of the Holocaust.
The White House Millennium Celebration on December 31, 1999, included several events, and was televised internationally. Nathan D. Baxter, then-Dean of Washington National Cathedral, was selected to deliver the prayer for the nation; [9] Terry McAuliffe, a friend of the Clintons, chaired a dinner celebration at the White House. [10]
Elie Wiesel. The words of Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, teacher and human rights activist, Elie Wiesel, have inspired countless individuals for decades—to hope for a better ...
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
The former Chancellor of Germany writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police state in East Germany, and her years as leader of a nation reunited ...
Forum 2000 Logo. Forum 2000 is a foundation and conference of the same name held in Prague, Czech Republic.The Forum 2000 Foundation was founded in 1996 as a joint initiative of the Czech President Václav Havel, Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gather in front of the White House ahead of a rally on the National Mall one week before the Nov. 5 U.S ...
The White House claimed that the Germans had given assurances that nothing in the Bitburg visit would be an "embarrassment" for the President: "As clumsily as we handled it, Kohl and his Co. have surpassed us in spades." A German official said: "The Americans also have a responsibility toward the president.