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Apr. 28, 2021
Washington’s National Cathedral, known for its role during presidential inaugurations and other days of national import, is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist with a bust, making him the first Jew to be so honored.
Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit.
“I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person,” the cathedral’s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said when asked how Wiesel came to be the first Jew to earn a sculpted depiction at the cathedral.
Asked if he was referring to Jesus and some of the apostles, who also make appearances in statues and in busts in the Washington landmark, Hollerith said yes.
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Artist Chas Fagan, right, holds a clay model of the bust of Elie Wiesel while stone carver Sean Callahan looks on, in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The two collaborated to make the bust, with Fagan designing the mold and Callahan carving it into the stone wall. (Courtesy National Cathedral)
The installed bust of Elie Wiesel on the Human Rights Porch in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. (Courtesy National Cathedral)
In this undated photo, sculptor Chas Fagan, left, holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan, right, uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington DC. (National Cathedral/ via JTA)
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Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. His father, mother and sister were killed in the camps, and he detailed the horrors of the Holocaust in his autobiographical novel “Night.” He authored 57 books, was a vocal advocate for human rights causes around the world, and served as a professor at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was the founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal. He died in 2016 of natural causes.
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Charity Benefit Honors Marion Wiesel On Her 90th Birthday
Charity Benefit Honors Marion Wiesel On Her 90th Birthday
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At a virtual celebration honoring her 90th birthday that also served as a benefit for the Beit Tzipora Centers that serve Ethiopian children in Israel, Marion Wiesel collected felicitations from a lineup that included Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Mayim Bialik, and Natan Sharansky.
In 1986, after Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for being “a messenger to mankind,” French President Francois Mitterrand asked his friend and Wiesel’s wife Marion what they planned to do with the prize money.