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126. Museum 25th Anniversary Marks Bold Vision and Campaign Extension
presented its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, to all survivors for their courage and resilience and ... result of a commission created in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter. Led by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel ... Dinner that evening, the Museum will honor all Holocaust survivors with its highest honor, the Elie ... Wiesel Award, for their courage and resilience and for inspiring the global movement for Holocaust
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127. New US Atrocity Prevention Strategy Signals Potential and Challenge
-scale, deliberate attacks. What is the strategy? The strategy follows directly from the Elie Wiesel ... with the priority actions outlined in the Elie Wiesel Act. Why is it important? Mass atrocities exact ... from the Elie Wiesel Act’s “sense of Congress” declaration that interagency coordination through the
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128. Ambassador Nikki Haley Delivers Remarks on South Sudan at US Holocaust Memorial Museum
museum. In working to prevent genocide, the Simon-Skjodt Center realizes Elie Wiesel’s vision of ... entirely appropriate. I chose to use a quote by Elie Wiesel, from his speech accepting the Nobel Peace ... live in more civilized times than the ones Elie Wiesel spent his life remembering. We’d like to ... brings me back to Elie Wiesel. Much of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech is an imagined conversation
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129. Sudan
Wiesel on Sudan Atrocities Read a speech by Holocaust survivor and Museum founder Elie Wiesel at the 2004 ... violence in Darfur and the international response in the Musem’s Holocaust Encyclopedia. Remarks by Elie
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130. Museum Accepts Jan Karski Eagle Award for “Humanitarian Service to Others”
League, and representatives of the Jan Karski Society. Past award recipients include Elie Wiesel, the ... Communications Officer 202.314.1772 rflandez@ushmm.org Special Focus: Jan Karski Holocaust Encyclopedia: Elie ... Wiesel
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131. Stuart E. Eizenstat
President’s Commission on the Holocaust chaired by Elie Wiesel and helped draft the legislation authorizing ... awards, including the Museum’s highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, as well as honors from the
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132. Acerca del Museo
Clinton, Chaim Herzog, Harvey Meyerhoff, Elie Wiesel 26 de abril de 1993 El Museo abre sus puertas ... Howard D. Unger Clemantine Wamariya Elie Wiesel Jeffrey S. Wilpon Fred S. Zeidman 4. ¿Quiénes ... agosto de 1790. Elie Wiesel Nunca olvidaré esa noche, la primera noche en el campo, la cual convirtió ... estas cosas, aunque esté condenado a vivir tanto como Dios mismo. Nunca. Fuente: Elie Wiesel, Night
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133. Museum Director Sara Bloomfield's Remarks at United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened 25 years ago, Elie Wiesel said, “The Museum is not ... . The Power of the Individual So to return to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust is a timely cautionary tale ... realize. As Elie Wiesel challenged us, these are not one-off questions. We need to
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134. Podcast: Voices on Antisemitism
decided to translate The Diary of Anne Frank into her native language of Khmer. Elie Wiesel May ... 24, 2007 Elie Wiesel—Holocaust survivor, best-selling author, and Nobel Peace prize recipient—worked
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135. 20 Year Anniversary of the Start of the Genocide in Darfur And Continuing Threats
Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent, and Respond to Atrocities, and the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities ... July 2004, the Museum’s Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel said, “Sudan has become today’s world capital of
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136. President Obama's Remarks at Buchenwald
Remarks by President Obama, German Chancellor Merkel, and Elie Wiesel at Buchenwald ... my friend Elie Wiesel, as well as Mr. Bertrand Herz, both of whom are survivors of this place ... remarks I thought it was appropriate to have Elie Wiesel provide some reflection and some thought as he ... . We saw the area known as Little Camp where Elie and Bertrand were sent as boys. In fact, at the place
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137. Training Video for Educators: Diaries and Memoirs in Historical Context
historical context: Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, and Anne Frank’s diary. The lessons promote understanding of ... how the Holocaust and World War II affected the lives of the Wiesel and Frank families. [mediaDisplay
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138. Museum Releases Information about Lead-Up to Rwandan Genocide
with its highest honor—the Elie Wiesel Award—at its annual dinner on April 30, during Holocaust Days of ... Elie Wiesel and Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi. More information about the Museum’s activities in
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139. Genocide Prevention Resources for Military
Atrocities (April 2015) Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act (PDF) (2018) Report to ... Congress Pursuant to Section 5 of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (P.L. 115
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140. Museum Announces $20 Million Gift to Name the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
-Skjodt family positions the Museum to fulfill Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel’s vision for a living ... Simon-Skjodt gift is part of the Museum’s $540 million campaign, led by Honorary Chair Elie Wiesel
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141. Major Gift Enables Museum to Launch Revitalization of Permanent Exhibition
will have an historic and enduring impact on the institution and fulfills Elie Wiesel’s vision of the ... Foundation, is part of the Museum’s $540 million campaign, led by Honorary Chair Elie Wiesel, that will
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142. Museum to Hold 2017 Risa K Lambert "What You Do Matters" Luncheon
Stop Asking Why.' As Museum Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel said, "The Museum is not meant to be an ... with its highest recognition, the Elie Wiesel Award, and in May launch its new exhibition and
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143. New Exhibition on Syria Opens Today
atrocities. As Elie Wiesel wrote in the Museum’s founding document: “A memorial unresponsive to the future ... how lives can be saved and perpetrators held accountable. As Elie Wiesel always reminded us, the
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144. Museum Launches Never Stop Asking Why Initiative
dedication, the Museum’s Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel said the Museum is a question, not an answer,” noted ... their courage and resilience with the Elie Wiesel Award, the Museum’s highest honor. This spring it will
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145. Museum Rescinds Award to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
you with the first Elie Wiesel Award in 2012. It is with great regret that we are now rescinding that ... today what was not done for the Jews of Europe. As Elie Wiesel said, “Neutrality helps the oppressor
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146. Echoes in the National Museum of African American History and Culture
States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Then, it was the words of Elie Wiesel and President Clinton that ... before Elie Wiesel gave us permission to speak of and mourn our losses, long before there was a Yom ha
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147. Museum 30th Anniversary National Tribute Event Celebrates Partnership
the anniversary event, the Museum presented its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, to all of its ... it is a beginning. The Museum’s founding father, Elie Wiesel, famously cautioned us that ‘we should
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148. History of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The Commission submitted a report to ... United States Holocaust Memorial Council; and Elie Wiesel, who had been
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149. Frequently Asked Research Questions
Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island,” dated August 17, 1790 Elie Wiesel Never shall I forget ... condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. –Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Bantam, 1982), p. 32 ... carrying out the above recommendations. Elie Wiesel was named the first chairman of the Council and Mark E ... Meyerhoff, and Elie Wiesel. 1993, April 26: The Museum opens to the public. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is
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150. Dr. Jonathan Druker
Levinasian Reading,” in Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives (2013). His recent ... Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi (2014 ); and “Victims and Executioners in Wiesel’s Dawn: A