Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Dies at 87

Elie Wiesel, who survived the hell of Nazi death camps to become a world-renowned author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died at his New York home at 87. Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial announced his death Saturday but gave no details. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the loss of Wiesel by saying he "gave expression to the victory of the human spirit over cruelty and evil." "In the darkness of the Holocaust, in which our sisters and...

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