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I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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