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bobabode
07-02-2016, 03:35 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/elie-wiesel-nobel-laureate-and-memory-keeper-of-the-holocaust-dies-at-87/2016/07/02/4a2d2472-50b5-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_eliewiesel-425pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.575072
Boreas
07-02-2016, 04:00 PM
RIP indeed.
Dondilion
07-02-2016, 04:09 PM
RIP Elie Wiesel
donquixote99
07-02-2016, 08:29 PM
His writing has affected me deeply. I will look forward to the occasions when i revisit it.
bobabode
07-02-2016, 10:43 PM
If I ever get back to DC, I'll have to visit the Holocaust Museum. I understand that Dad's outfit, the 10th Armored Division is listed as a liberating unit of the Dachau sub-camp at Landsberg.

Never Forget.
Pio1980
07-03-2016, 09:55 AM
Dunno if I could. I've immersed myself in the history of that period well to the point of revulsion of the ruthlessness of evil.

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whell
07-03-2016, 10:38 AM
If I ever get back to DC, I'll have to visit the Holocaust Museum. I understand that Dad's outfit, the 10th Armored Division is listed as a liberating unit of the Dachau sub-camp at Landsberg.

Never Forget.

RIP.

There's a Holocaust Memorial Center (http://www.holocaustcenter.org/) not far from where we live that opened a few years ago. I've never been, so a visit is overdue.
finnbow
07-03-2016, 11:08 AM
If I ever get back to DC, I'll have to visit the Holocaust Museum. I understand that Dad's outfit, the 10th Armored Division is listed as a liberating unit of the Dachau sub-camp at Landsberg.

Never Forget.

It's definitely worth a visit, as is Yad Vashem (http://www.yadvashem.org/) in Jerusalem. I've probably been to Dachau ten times or more, as it was between my home in Augsburg and Munich where I'd go frequently for work and play. It's surprising when you see the Dachau camp location, as Dachau (the town) is a very nice, upscale suburb of Munich that happens to have the remnants of a concentration camp in its midst.

I also had several projects in Landsberg (there was a German airbase there) and would frequently drive by the prison where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (it's still an active prison run by the state of Bavaria).
Dondilion
07-03-2016, 11:28 AM
In Brooklyn I have met and talked with holocausts survivors...unforgettable experience.