Merkel mourns death of ‘extraordinary person’ Elie Wiesel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

“I remain grateful for my encounter with this extraordinary person. Elie Wiesel reached out to us Germans and worked tirelessly with us to make a better world possible,” she says.

— AP contributed

This June 5, 2009 photo shows US President Barack Obama (C), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survior Elie Wiesel making their way to pay their respects at a memorial during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)
This June 5, 2009, photo shows US President Barack Obama (C), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel making their way to pay their respects at a memorial during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

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