{"id":3226,"date":"2016-07-03T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2016-07-03T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:41:58","slug":"elie-wiesel-1928-2016-italy-mourns-a-symbol-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2016\/07\/03\/elie-wiesel-1928-2016-italy-mourns-a-symbol-of-the-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"ELIE WIESEL (1928-2016) Italy Mourns a \u201cSymbol of the 20th\u00a0Century\u201d \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2016\/07\/eliewiesel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2016\/07\/eliewiesel-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"eliewiesel\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2016\/07\/eliewiesel-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2016\/07\/eliewiesel-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2016\/07\/eliewiesel.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Pagine Ebraiche staff<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nItaly and the Italian Jewish community join the rest of the world in mourning the Shoah survivor, writer and Nobel peace prize winner, Elie Wiesel, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 87.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWiesel worked ceaselessly to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, to fight indifference, lying and injustice all of which are unfortunately still common today,\u201d said the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. \u201cHe was a defender of freedom, he stood by the side of the oppressed and his lesson will live on. In a time when humanity faces epochal challenges, such as the barbarism of terrorism and the tragedy of migration, his example pushes us not to defect from pursuing the goal of building free, just and equal societies.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAmong the leaders who expressed their condolences were some prominent historians.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWiesel said that nothing about the Holocaust can be described, but then he wrote incredible pages about it. I hope that also those who think that without witnesses it will be impossible to talk about the Holocaust will be proven wrong, as he was,\u201d explained Marcello Pezzetti, the scientific director of the Foundation of the Holocaust Museum of Rome.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWe are experiencing an important moment of passage between generations, a moment of responsibility,\u201d said Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, director of the Library Renato Maestro in Venice and appointed director of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan.\u00a0 \u201cAs the last survivors pass away, we have to ponder new actions and tools so that the memory of what happened does not disappear.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cHis view on reality was always formed through the lenses of the Holocaust, and this included when he spoke about different situations, from Rwanda to Bosnia, from the Kurds to Israel, Elie Wiesel was the voice of the Jewish collective conscience and we knew he would not go unheeded,\u201d commented CDEC scholar Liliana Picciotto. \u201cHe had become a symbol of the 20th\u00a0century.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pagine Ebraiche staff \u00a0 Italy and the Italian Jewish community join the rest of the world in mourning the Shoah survivor, writer and Nobel peace prize winner, Elie Wiesel, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. \u00a0 \u201cWiesel worked ceaselessly to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, to fight indifference, lying&hellip; <a class=\"more\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2016\/07\/03\/elie-wiesel-1928-2016-italy-mourns-a-symbol-of-the-20th-century\/\">leggi&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7607],"tags":[],"position":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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