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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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