Elie Wiesel Refuses Hungarian Award From Nazi Sympathizers
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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. Photo: David Shankbone.
Huffington Post – Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel (vee-ZEHL’) says he’s “repudiating” a Hungarian government award he received in 2004 because top officials in Budapest attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer.
That memorial rite weeks ago was offensive to the 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose parents were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz by wartime Hungarian officials.
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