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101. 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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102. 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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103. 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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104. 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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105. 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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106. 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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107. 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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108. 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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109. 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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110. 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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111. 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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112. 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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113. 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
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114. Museum Opens New Exhibition "Americans and the Holocaust"
The 1979 President’s Commission on the Holocaust, chaired by Museum Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel ... Museum honored all Holocaust survivors with its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, for their courage
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115. Angelina Jolie Tours Museum’s Exhibit on Genocide Prevention before Premiere of Her New Film
Founding Chairman and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered a personal plea to then-President Clinton to ... work to stop the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps Wiesel saw and understood from his
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116. Museum Recognizes 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention
perpetrators. After the Convention was ratified by the US Senate, in 1986, Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding ... perpetrated.'' Despite the universality of the Convention’s norms, regrettably Wiesel was right and cases of
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117. Holocaust Videos for Classroom Use
Plan Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel and Night This 8-minute film places Wiesel’s experiences and Night ... students understand the fuller historical context of the events described in Wiesel’s writing, the purpose
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118. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Launches Comprehensive Campaign
the future of Holocaust memory. Led by honorary chair Elie Wiesel and under the banner of “Never Again ... remarks to some 4,000 attendees at the 20th Anniversary National Tribute Dinner on April 28, Wiesel spoke
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119. Key Videos
Jews, despite the risks. The Many Legacies of Elie Wiesel These videos explore different aspects of ... Wiesel’s impact and legacy through the voices of many of those who knew him best. YouTube The Museum
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120. Adrian Cioflâncă
grants from the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania and the Europa ... ‘Al. I. Cuza’ University in Iaşi, Romania. For his Tziporah Wiesel Fellowship, Mr. Cioflâncă conducted
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121. United States Holocaust Memorial Council (Board of Trustees)
–2002 Miles Lerman+ 1993–2000 Harvey M. Meyerhoff 1987–1993 Elie Wiesel+ 1980–1986 Former Vice ... Marchick, Washington, DC Frederick R. Marcus, Atlanta, GA John T. McNabb II, Highlands Ranch, CO Eli
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122. National Leadership Awards
Genocide, they exemplify Elie Wiesel’s call to action that the Museum serve as a living memorial to inspire ... camps before coming to Chicago in 2000. As an eighth-grader, she wrote an essay on why Elie Wiesel
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123. Books
Silent: Reflections on Fate and Memory in Buchenwald By Jorge Semprun and Elie Wiesel Translated by ... network) proposed an encounter between two highly-regarded figures of our time: Elie Wiesel and Jorge
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124. Museum to Host "What You Do Matters" Chicago Luncheon
major part of this year’s luncheon will honor the late Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate ... refugee camps before coming to Chicago in 2000. As an eighth-grader, she wrote an essay on why Wiesel
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125. President Obama Announces New Appointee to United States Holocaust Memorial Council
is program coordinator at the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, a position she has held since 2005