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Elie Wiesel and the unfathomable God
10 years ago(FILES) This January 24, 2005, shows US author and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, renowned writer and Nobel peace laureate who worked to keep alive the memory of Jews slaughtered during World War II, has died, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust centre said on July 2, 2016. DON EMMERT / AFP
It has been poignantly observed that it is impossible to ponder the enormity of the Teutonic fury that banished so many human beings to utter destruction. One had to be there. One had to be a Jew.