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Sunday, July 3, 2016
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Sunday, July 3, 2016
Private funeral for Elie Wiesel held in NY
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMourners gather in New York on Sunday to bid farewell to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate hailed for his life’s work of keeping alive the memory of Jews slaughtered during World War II.
Wiesel, who died in New York on Saturday at age 87, is to be honored at private services at a synagogue on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
Wiesel’s wife Marion, in a wheelchair, is among those who arrived in a stream of black cars.
The burial was to follow the service, some of the mourners tell AFP.
— AFP
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