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Wiesel, Elie
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
An anti-Israeli as new Unesco director-general?
Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, film director Claude Lanzmann and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticise the possible appointment of Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny as Unesco director-general, pointing to his anti-Israeli stance: "Who declared in 1997 and in many different tones since that he was 'a stubborn enemy' of any attempts to normalise relations between his country and Israel? Who answered an alarmed member of the Egyptian parliament who was concerned that Israeli books could be transferred to the library in Alexandria saying: 'Let us burn these books'? … And worse still: the sentences mentioned here are just some - and not even the most appalling - among many similar statements that have accompanied the career of Farouk Hosny for around fifteen years. … It is obvious: Farouk Hosny does not deserve the post [of Unesco director-general]. He is the opposite of a man of peace, dialogue and culture. He is a dangerous man, one who inflames hearts and souls."
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Elie Wiesel calls for the Holocaust not to be forgotten
The author Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace, evoked the incarceration of Nazi criminals in an interview with Alessandra Farkas. The Italian justice system has just allowed the former German SS officer Erich Priebke, 93 years old, given a life sentence in 1988, to leave the residence where he is serving his sentence under house arrest, once a day to work. This has provoked strong reaction among Jewish associations and ex-servicemen. "Nazi criminals given life sentences should end their days behind bars. To forget the Holocaust is a crime against memory and crimes against memory can have devastating consequences. I am opposed to the death sentence, even in such cases, but I don't believe in the reduction or slackening of sentences. ... I would like to say to angry young Jewish people that I share and understand their rage."
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Elie Wiesel and the madness of mankind
The writer Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, evokes the madness of mankind in an interview with François Dufay. "In every era, history has witnessed bouts of madness: the crusades were pure lunacy, as was the Inquisition... And what can be said of the 20th century? ... In 1945, paradoxically, when I returned from the death camps, I became an optimist. I sincerely believed that antisemitism and racism belonged to the past. And then came Rwanda, Bosnia... On December 31, 1999, I was still convinced that the 21st century would be better, that we were saying good-bye to a cursed century. And the next thing we see: Darfour, Iraq, Afghanistan, a resurgence in hatred and antisemitism recovering lost ground. Is this the residue of the madness of the 20th century? In psychiatry, one speaks of latency when you need a generation to understand the effect of a cause..."
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