The candle-lighting was followed by a short address given by the chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Elie Wiesel, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, is a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He has proved it more than once by his support of Holocaust Memorial Council projects. But then how is one to understand the recent incident with regard to his visit to West Germany? The SS was declared by the Nuremberg tribunal as a criminal organization, and therefore to visit a cemetery where there are SS graves is wrong, period.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 02, 2016 20:59 UTC