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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Elie Wiesel
ELIE WIESEL
Awarded by
President George Bush
December 11, 1992
Few people have seen a darker side of humanity than Elie Wiesel. During World War II, he saw most of his family killed while imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. And yet this author, philosopher, and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize still sees the promise of human tolerance, learning, and faith. He challenges people of all religions to remember the Holocaust, that it may never happen again. His deeply spiritual life and literature remind us that to protect freedom's flame, we must remember that which threatens it. The United States honors this keeper of that flame, Elie Wiesel.
Biography
Elie Wiesel: "The Perils of Indifference"
Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Elie Wiesel
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