PAGE 8, THE HILL NEWS, APRIL 19, 1996
SLlTWelcomes Elie Wiesel
Nobel Peace Prue winner and Boston University Professor Elie Wiesel
will present the 1995 Kathryn Fraser Mackay Lecture at St. Lawrence
University on Monday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Gulick Theatre, on the
topic "The Eternal Question of Suffering and Evil."
Wiesel was originally scheduled to speak in November, but postponed
the lecture to attend the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
New tickets are required for attendance at the lecture; they are free and
available at the St. Lawrence Bookstore.
Wiesel\ personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to ust his
talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and
peace throughout the world. His efforts have earned him the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the
Medal of Liberty Award, the rank of Grand Officer in the French Legion
of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He has recieved more than
75 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.
.President Jimmy Carter appointed him in 1978 as chairman of the
President's Commission on the Holocaust, and later as founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Wiesel is also the
founding president of the Paris-based University Academy of Cultures.
His more than 35 books have won numerous awards; the first volume
of his memoirs, All Rivers Flow to the Sea, was published by Knopf in
1995.
A native of Sighet. Transylvania (Romania), Wiesel and his family
were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was 15 years old. He
was later transported to Buchenwald.
After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a jounalist in
that city, though he remained silent about what he had endured as an'
inmate in the death camps. He later wrote La Nuit (Night), about the
experience. Since its publication in 1958, La Nuit has been translated
into 25 languages.
A devoted supporter of Israel, Wiesel has defended the cause of Soviet
Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's "disappeared," Cambodian refugees, the Kurds. South African apartheid victims, famine victims in Africa and the victims and prisoners in the former Yugoslavia.
He is a founder of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which
has as its mission the advancement of the cause of human rights and
peace throughout the world by creating a forum for the discussion of
urgent ethical issues confronting humanity.
Arrangements for Elie Wiesel were made through the B'nai B'rith Lecture Bureau.
The Mackay Lectureship was created in 1985, in memory of St.
Lawrence graduate Kathryn Fraser Mackay, of Waitsfield, Vermont, who
died in a plane crash in 1979. A pre-medieal student at the University of
Vermont, she was interested in religion and philosophy. The annual lecture given in her name concentrates on themes of religion and philosophy.
Elie Wiesel
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