Obama Presidential Center Auditorium to be named after Elie Wiesel

[Tanuki]

https://jewishinsider.com/2021/12/obama-presidential-center-auditorium-to-be-named-after-elie-wiesel/

"The auditorium at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will be named after Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, as part of an effort to honor “civil rights and social justice leaders whose significant contributions to society advanced justice and equality in America,” the Obama Foundation announced on Thursday.

The space was sponsored by Obama Foundation board member Penny Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert. 

“Elie Wiesel endured the unimaginable evils of the Holocaust and emerged as the world’s conscience in the struggle for human rights,” Pritzker said in a statement. “His unrelenting activism and prolific writing after bearing witness to such horrors is a call to each of us to never become indifferent. A more just and peaceful world is always possible.”

In 2009, Obama and Wiesel, accompanied by then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, visited the Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel was imprisoned during the final months of the war."...(more)

[Grasswire2]

1. this made me cry

And I'm not Jewish. But I follow every day the twitter feed of the Auschwitz Museum where they post photos every day of people who did not survive. And I have four grandchildren with Jewish heritage.

[Stuart G]

2. Elie Wiesel wrote the book ..."The Night" one of the most difficult books I've ever read.

If you want to know about the "concentration camps" read the book, then watch the movie ........

Night and Fog.....you will never forget either one..

[madaboutharry]

3. Such a beautiful tribute.

This is another example of Barack Obama’s extraordinary leadership and humanity. It isn’t all about him. It is for the world.

[Stuart G]

4. Thank You for saying the above. Repeat: "It isn't all about him. it is for the world"

By naming the Auditorium after Eli Wiesel, many who did not know who he was and what he wrote,
will read the book ..."The Night".....

While this topic of.... cruelty toward people is being discussed.....

Read...."Bury My Hear at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown
...about cruelty to Native Americans. You will never forget that one either.