Elie Wiesel is up to his neck in work

I am not Jewish, but many of the most important people in my life were and are Jews, It has become more vitally important than ever that the Holocaust not be forgotten, and that all compassionate nations, especially the US (were I live) support the existence of Israel. G-d help us all if we let another Holocaust happen. And it seems to me becoming daily more likely. I get so frustrated when I hear people say they are not antisemitic, but do not support the State of Israel. That is a very short-sighted opinion. Jewishness depends on a free Israel with a united Jerusalem as it's capital.

Elie is not what most people believe. I WAS AT A SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME. So was Primo Levi. Our experience is quiet different. Reading our book about Auschwitz one would think we came from a very different place. His story about being operated in Auschwitz is not true.I mean the way he describes it. I was an attendant in the hospital at the time Elie claims to be operated on. And rest of his stories...

i wonder if Wiesel wasn't a zionist would he have got all this publicity and awards. i listened to the man, he never impressed me. may be others are different when it comes to right and wrong.

I remember when Wiesel became an Honorary Doctor at the University of Abo Akademi in Finland.. Because I wrote my thesis about Elie Wiesel I got to meet and discuss with him .It was amazing - I could open up completely and share my wounds. I also talked about the help I've got from his books. Prof. Wiesel was very open to me too. It was one of those rare " I and Thou " meetings, for which I'm forever grateful!

Mr. Weisel is a real tsadik. May he live to 120 in good health.

I hate--really--to disagree with the esteemed Mr. Wiesel, whose work to help ensure we all remember the Shoah will stand as long as this world does. But can it be that he is not aware that Barack Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, voted four times against a common-sense measure that would ensure that babies "accidentally" born alive after an abortion received all the care any other patient would? The effect of Mr. Obama's votes, blessedly swept away in a flood of votes by his political opponents (the bill passed), would have been to let these babies die alone, without comfort. Mr. Obama's spin machine has tried in many ways--with regrettable success--to blunt the political effect of his (in effect) pro-infanticide votes. But I've read the primary sources, heard Mr. Obama's speeches. He voted against because he didn't want the bill to have a chilling efect on a woman's "right to choose." With all due respect to our President as a human, his policies are an anti-life horror. Our "last hope"? If that is true, Mr. Wiesel, we have no hope. At all.