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Witness for Nation's Future - Honouring Meles Zenawi's Victims

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:52:05 GMT

In the wake of the May 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary elections, paramilitary forces under the command of Meles Zenawi orchestrated the massacre of 193 innocent men, women and children and wounded a further 763 people involved in civil protest, writes...
Source: AllAfrica.com

Elie Weisel vs Stephanie Meyer

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:14:53 GMT

I was on the bus reading Twilight, by Elie Wiesel. A twenty-something girl sat next to me and peered over my shoulder. Me: Actually, this book came out fifteen years ago. Her: Really? So, did, like, Stephanie Meyer copy her? Me: Him.
Source: Andymatic

Commentary: Gratitude

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:13:10 GMT

2009 has been a particularly challenging year for many people. It might be difficult to think of things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. My wife and I both buried our fathers this year.
Source: KERA

Meet the Winkelmans

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:58:57 GMT

Breakfasting with the Winkelmans is like parachuting into a long-running situation comedy. Gibes, jokes, gaffes, giggles, manifestos, revelations, false memories and overlapping responses circulate around the table at breakneck speed.
Source: Austin American-Statesman

Mutual of America Foundation to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:17:14 GMT

November 18, 2009 8:11 AM EST What: Mutual of America Foundation will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to announce the 2009 Community Partnership Award recipients.
Source: Street Insider

Holocaust survivor hopes to inspire

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:50:15 GMT

Meyers High School senior Julie Mercadante asks Elie Wiesel a question during a student question-and-answer period at the Westmoreland Club. Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks at the Westmoreland Club on Tuesday night.
Source: Wilkes-Barre Weekender

Holocaust survivor hopes to inspire

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:09:43 GMT

WILKES-BARRE – Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel may have been the featured speaker at Wilkes University’s Outstanding Leaders Forum on Tuesday night, but he said he does not consider himself a leader.
Source: Wilkes-Barre Weekender

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Witness for the Future

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:13:20 GMT

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory.
Source: Huffington Post

Quoted in 'Anne Frank: From Page to Stage at Bay Street Theatre'

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:39:30 GMT

said in The Sag Harbor Express:

When I was of middle school age, I became obsessed with the Holocaust ... I think it started with watching the film ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ and after that I started to read things by people like Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi all through my middle school to high school years. I don’t know what it was that drew me. It wasn’t the macabre, but more the astonishment of the struggle.

Quoted in 'Max Blumenthal: Elie Wiesel Appears With End Times Pastor John Hagee, Hagee Trashes Obama'

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:29:57 GMT

Elie Wiesel said in Huffington Post:

My dear pastor when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart ... And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:05:19 GMT

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (R) and Main U.S. negotiator on the compensation of wartime slave and forced labour victims Stuart Eizenstat attend a news conference during the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague June...

Photo from AP Photo

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Main U.S. negotiator on the compensation of wartime slave and forced labor victims Stuart Eizenstat, left, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, right, attend a news conference at the opening of the five-day international conference on the Holocaust...

Night by Elie Wiesel

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:48:01 GMT