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Read the full text of Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, in which he recounts his personal story of survival and his commitment to human rights and justice. He urges us to remember the victims of oppression and to take sides against silence and indifference.
Dec 11, 1986 · Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. The following are excerpts from the prepared text of the acceptance speech by Elie Wiesel, the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, at a ceremony in Oslo.*.
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Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech. by Elie Wiesel. 1986. 8th Grade Lexile: 790. Font Size. Elie Wiesel 2010 by David Shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0. [1] It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. I know: your choice transcends me. This both frightens and pleases me.
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Dec 11, 1986 · Following is the prepared text of the acceptance speech by Elie Wiesel, the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, at a ceremony in Oslo yesterday, as made available by an aide: It is with...
In 1945, on the ashes left behind after the sacrificial flames which annihilated six million Jews, sat the seventeen-year-old Elie Wiesel, an only son of Abraham, an Isaac who once again had escaped a sacrificial death on Mount Moriah at the last moment.