Letter from Christian de Duve to Elie Wiesel regarding Nobel Prize Laureates Conference

This document is an excerpt from the Congressional Record, dated October 17, 1986, featuring a speech by Senator Christopher J. Dodd. The speech honors Elie Wiesel for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, praising his monumental contributions as a witness to the Holocaust. Dodd emphasizes Wiesel's writing, teaching, and personal testimony for helping survivors tell their stories and ensuring the world remembers the horrors of concentration camps such as Dachau, Treblinka, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Auschwitz. The speech underscores the importance of remembering the 6 million murdered Jews and condemns Holocaust deniers. It also acknowledges Wiesel's broader work on human suffering and genocide in various global conflicts, including those in Cambodia, Central America, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Biafra, and Vietnam. The document includes a handwritten inscription from "Chris" (likely Christopher J. Dodd) to Elie Wiesel, stating, "To Elie - I wish my words below Could more accurately Senate Capture my true feeling for you my friend Love always Chris."

This document is an invitation requesting the recipient to join The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and The Co-Chairmen of The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities at a private reception. The event is scheduled for six-thirty o'clock at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, specifically in the Kenneth E. Behring Center's Presidential Reception Suite. Guests are asked to RSVP by calling 202-636-8745 or emailing ariel@campbellpeachey.com no later than February 17.

This booklet serves as a memento of the proceedings for the 90th Nobel Anniversary Dinner, held at the New York Hilton on December 9, 1986. The event commemorated Alfred Nobel and honored American Nobel Laureates. The document includes a proclamation from New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, a message from President Ronald Reagan advocating for peace in a nuclear age, and a message from Pope John Paul II emphasizing unity and cooperation. Dr. Henry A. Singer, Executive Officer of the American Nobel Anniversary Committee, played a key role in the compilation. Illustrated with photographs, the booklet features prominent attendees and speakers, including co-chairmen Dr. Henry Kissinger and Warren Anderson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liv Ullman, and U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters. It also details future initiatives such as biannual American Nobel Convocations and the establishment of American Nobel Laureate Fellowships to support emerging scientists and researchers, reflecting the ongoing commitment to recognizing and fostering contributions to humanity.

This document is a thank you letter from David Axelrod, Director of The University of Chicago Institute of Politics, to Elie Wiesel. Dated May 31, 2013, the letter expresses profound gratitude to Wiesel for generously sharing wisdom with the students (referred to as "kids") at the institute. Axelrod praises Elie's significant positive impact on inspiring young people and expresses confidence that they will continue to work towards making the world better. The letter concludes with an informal expression of love and appreciation.

This document is an invitation and program guide for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, which took place in New York City from September 24-26, 2008. The invitation letter, dated July 2, 2008, is personally signed by Bill Clinton and addresses Professor Elie Wiesel, inviting him to participate. The meeting aims to convene influential global leaders, including heads of state, business executives, non-profit directors, and faith leaders, to collaborate on actionable solutions for pressing global challenges. Key focus areas highlighted are energy and climate change, poverty alleviation, global health, and education. The document outlines CGI's unique approach, which includes plenary and working group sessions, fostering commitments to action, providing ongoing support, and recognizing achievements. It also lists many prominent individuals who have previously participated in the initiative and details the impressive impact of CGI's efforts in improving lives worldwide. A membership form is included for those wishing to join.

Suzanne Gross, nee Sarah Pertofsky, was born in Paris, France in 1931. Her parents were born in Belz (Russia) and emigrated to France around 1924. They had a beauty parlor in Paris which was closed by the Germans after the invasion of Paris. At that time Jews were rounded up systematically and families were forcibly separated. Non-native born Jews were rounded up before Jews who were considered French.

As a child, especially after she started school, Suzanne was made to feel she was not really French. Suzanne talks in detail about her experience when she had to wear her Yellow Star to school.

Her father went underground, worked at first on a farm, then joined the Jewish French partisans. He later worked in a steel factory be‌cause the French partisans did not want Jews. Her mother was hidden by neighbors for three months.

Sarah was sent to a farm in Normandy with 5 or 6 other children by the French Jewish Scouts (Eclaireurs Israelites de France) who had an underground network to hide Jewish children. She worked on various farms under harsh conditions. She was a hidden child in a convent school where she had to pretend she was Catholic.

She was reunited with her parents in Paris, who lived clandestinely on and off in their boarded up shop. The family received money from a resistance movement in the steel factory where her father worked. The concierge helped by selling items knitted by her mother. During this time Suzanne and her sister often warned Jews when a police round-up started. Many Jews were imprisoned at Drancy. She describes how families searched for arrested relatives from afar.

She gives a detailed account of her emotional responses to the childhood trauma she experienced and to surviving the Holocaust. The family emigrated to the USA in 1946.

Interviewee: GROSS, Suzanne Date: August 9, 1983