{"id":181412,"date":"2016-07-04T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/04\/a-witness-has-left-us\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:59:00","slug":"a-witness-has-left-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/04\/a-witness-has-left-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A Witness has Left Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/03\/world\/europe\/elie-wiesel-auschwitz-survivor-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-dies-at-87.html\">Elie Wiesel, has died at age 87<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world\u2019s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Menachem Rosensaft, a longtime friend and the founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, confirmed the death in a phone call.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Wiesel, a charismatic lecturer and humanities professor, was the author of several dozen books. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But he was defined not so much by the work he did as by the gaping void he filled. In the aftermath of the Germans\u2019 systematic massacre of Jews, no voice had emerged to drive home the enormity of what had happened and how it had changed mankind\u2019s conception of itself and of God. For almost two decades, the traumatized survivors \u2014 and American Jews, guilt-ridden that they had not done more to rescue their brethren \u2014 seemed frozen in silence.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elie Wiesel, has died at age 87: Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world\u2019s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.Menachem Rosensaft, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1115,1011,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-genocide","category-history","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}