In a wheelchair, his widow, Marion, listened as Mr. Wiesel was eulogized by his son Elisha, a partner at Goldman Sachs. She knew Mr. Wiesel, who died on Saturday at 87, only through his prolific writing. Mr. Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald camp as a 16-year-old, with the numbers A-7713 tattooed on his arm. Among those at the burial was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who began a friendship with Mr. Wiesel over 25 years ago when he invited Mr. Wiesel to speak at Oxford University, where Rabbi Boteach was in residence. He spoke of how funny Mr. Wiesel was, and of their decades-long friendship that was spent finding ways to make each other laugh.

Source: New York Times July 03, 2016 21:46 UTC