Letter from Isi Leibler (World Jewish Congress) to Elie Wiesel regarding restitution of Judaica from Prague

This document is a formal invitation from The Congress of the United States, requesting the presence of the recipient at a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony. The ceremony is held in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi and is scheduled for Wednesday, September 19, 2012, at three o'clock in the afternoon. The event will take place in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, District of Columbia. Guests are requested to RSVP by September 14, either by calling (202) 226-9336 or by emailing [email protected]. The invitation explicitly states that all guests must RSVP for security purposes.

This letter, dated May 5, 2014, is from Ruth Lichtenstein, Director of Project Witness and Publisher of Hamodia Newspaper, to Professor Eli Wiesel of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Lichtenstein begins by marking the 70th yahrtzeit of her brother, Mendele, who perished in the Holocaust, and shares her personal family history of discovering this loss. She highlights the widespread impact of the Holocaust, mentioning a group of 180 Polish Jews, including Yitzhak Katzenelson, who were sent from Vitel via Drancy to Auschwitz. Recognizing Professor Wiesel's unique understanding of such pain, Lichtenstein then extends an invitation for him to provide opening remarks at a special event on July 28th. This event will feature the premier showing of a new Project Witness documentary film focusing on the destruction of Hungarian Jewry, scheduled at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The documentary aims to educate the next generation about the magnitude of what was lost during the Holocaust.

This document is a program for "An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance" held at Chapman University on April 16, 2015. The event, presented by the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, Department of Theatre, and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, featured a series of performances, readings, and reflections. Highlights included a welcome by Dr. Daniele Struppa, musical excerpts by various composers performed by artists such as Iman Khosrowpour and Summer Hassan, and readings from the works of Elie Wiesel by students and faculty. The program also included a lighting of commemorative candles and reflections by Dr. Marilyn Harran and Dr. Gail Stearns, with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel present as a Distinguished Presidential Fellow. The document details biographies of the speakers, performers, and production team, emphasizing the event's focus on memory, justice, and human rights in the context of the Holocaust, commemorating the millions who perished and honoring survivors and liberators.

This is a letter dated August 9, 2010, from John Silber, President Emeritus of Boston University, to "Elie." Silber shares an excerpt from a term paper written by his 13-year-old granddaughter, Olivia Mock, who is identified as one of Alexandra's children and a Protestant Christian. The excerpt describes Olivia's profound engagement with a Holocaust unit in class, emphasizing her realization that figures like Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel were real and that the events truly happened. She includes a powerful passage from her paper depicting the suffering of Jews in a truck during the Holocaust. Olivia expresses her desire to capture the Jewish experience during the persecutions and to spread a message of peace, hoping to humble others as she was humbled by learning about "Hitler's wrath."

Elie Wiesel writes to The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute to accept the Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Prize. He expresses profound gratitude, highlighting Eisenhower's significance to his generation not only as an Allied Commander-in-Chief during World War II and a great president, but specifically as the man whose armies liberated the death camps. Wiesel recounts seeing Eisenhower at Buchenwald in 1945 and states he will never forget him. He concludes by mentioning his assistant, Renee Spitz, will coordinate a mutually convenient meeting date in the spring.