Elie Wiesel calls for the Holocaust not to be forgotten

The author Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace, evoked the incarceration of Nazi criminals in an interview with Alessandra Farkas. The Italian justice system has just allowed the former German SS officer Erich Priebke, 93 years old, given a life sentence in 1988, to leave the residence where he is serving his sentence under house arrest, once a day to work. This has provoked strong reaction among Jewish associations and ex-servicemen. "Nazi criminals given life sentences should end their days behind bars. To forget the Holocaust is a crime against memory and crimes against memory can have devastating consequences. I am opposed to the death sentence, even in such cases, but I don't believe in the reduction or slackening of sentences. ... I would like to say to angry young Jewish people that I share and understand their rage."

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