Elie Wiesel attacked in SF

February 10th, 2007 by Michelle

Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winnerElie Wiesel was attacked last week in an elevator in San Francisco’s Argent Hotel by a Holocaust denier, whose aim was to force Wiesel to say the Holocaust never happened. Wiesel escaped the Australian attacker unharmed.

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