By Emily LangerHolocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the memory-keeper for victims of Nazi persecution, and a Nobel laureate who used his moral authority to force attention on atrocities around the world, has died at his home in New York. "Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims." To forget the Holocaust, he always said, would be to kill the victims a second time. "Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world," President Barack Obama said, describing Wiesel as "a dear friend". Wiesel and others opposed the trip after learning that the cemetery included the graves of several dozen members of the SS, the elite Nazi force.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 03, 2016 02:26 UTC