Elie Wiesel: Remembrance and Hope

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This is one of those e-mails that is impossible NOT to forward.———————————————————–REMEMBRANCE AND HOPE———————————————————–The following are excerpts of a speech that Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel gave last week at the Holland and Knight Charitable Foundation’s Holocaust Remembrance Project dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington: Why remember? … Why should we give our memories to young people and place such a burden of sadness on their frail or not so frail shoulders? … What we want to give is reasons to be joyous. “Have fun,” as you say in America. I don’t like that expression. There are two

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