Elie Wiesel

4/20/88

Speaking at a conference on Group Defamation and the Freedom of Speech, keynote guest Elie Wiesel urges that freedom of speech and inquiry on the alleged Holocaust be proscribed. Wiesel called revisionists "the most despicable of our enemies," and claimed that French revisionist scholar Dr. Robert Faurrison was "haunting" and "persucuting" him. When Wiesel was asked if his admonition to every Jew to maintain "a zone of hate --- healthy, virile hate --- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German" might qualify as "group defamation," conference organizer Monroe Freedman intervened to denounce the question as anti-Semitic.

This Elie Wiesel is famous for a sketch of threee Jews executed by the Nazis save it is a plagarism of three Life Magazine photos of executed Nazis.

This Elie Wiesel is famous for claiming to having seen "geyers of blood" at Babi Yar a year after another author wrote of seeing geyers of erupting gas from the Jews buried there. Neither author knew that aerial photos were taken just after the infamous Babi Yar mass execution and there is no indication of any mass grave site, no indication of any disturbance of the foliage or ground cover of any kind.