Elie Wiesel, fighter against violence, genocide worldwide, says Hebrew communities federation

The Hebrew Communities Federation of Romania - Mosaic Cult (FCER-CM) deplores the death of Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, a Nobel Prize for Peace laureate, saying that he was "a fighter against violence and genocide worldwide." 

"His spirit of justice has transformed him not only into an unyielding fighter for the memory of Holocaust, but also in a fighter against violence and genocide worldwide, no matter of the victims' nationality," says the FCER-CM in a release sent on Sunday to AGERPRES. 

The federation reminds about the speech Elie Wiesel has delivered at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. 

"The life credo of Elie Wiesel was expressed by himself in the Nobel Prize acceptance speech when he said that he tried 'to keep the memory alive.'" 

I've tried to fight against all of those who forget. Because, if we forget, we become guilty, we are accomplices, said Elie Wiesel who believed that the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference, adds the release signed by the FCER-CM chairman, the MP Aurel Vainer and vice-chairman Paul Schwartz. 

"The famous and the late Jew born at Sighet (northern Romania - author's note) has led the 'International Committee for Holocaust in Romania', known as 'The Wiesel Committee' whose final Report led to the recognition by the Romanian state of the Holocaust in our country, to establishing the day of 9 October (the day the Jews of Transnistria started to be deported by order of Antonescu Government) as the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Romania," the release says.