A Jewish organization working in the former Soviet Union inaugurates an exhibition in Moscow on the life of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
The exhibition, called “Elie Wiesel, from Sighet to Moscow via France and Israel,” is launched by Limmud FSU, which organizes Jewish learning conferences in over a dozen countries with large populations of Russian-speaking Jews.
Prominent figures from Russian Jewry, including the country’s two chief rabbis, Berel Lazar and Avraham Shayevich, are attending the opening at the Israeli Cultural Center. The display features dozens of photos from important stations in the life of Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and prolific writer who died last month in New York at 87.
US President Barack Obama, center, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, 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, June 5, 2009. (AFP/MANDEL NGAN)
His 1966 book, “The Jews of Silence,” looked at Jews living in repression beyond the Iron Curtain under communism, and served as a catalyst for the Soviet Jewry movement.
The exhibit features a 2009 photo showing Wiesel holding a white rose while walking alongside President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a visit to the former concentration camp Buchenwald.
— JTA
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