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The Incredible Legacy of Marion Wiesel, Elie Wiesel’s Wife and Translator

JL;DR SUMMARY Marion Wiesel, who passed away at 97, was a remarkable figure in her own right, not just as the wife of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaust SurvivorSocial JusticeHolocaust EducationElie WieselTranslationNobel PrizeMarion WieselElie Wiesel FoundationBeit Tzipora Centers

Places mentioned

Gurs, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
"Instead, the translator and activist, who passed away last week at age 97, and her family managed to escape the French concentration camp they were in the Gurs Internment Camp before the Jews were deported to Eastern Europe, the majority of them perishing in the Nazi death camp."
France
"Instead, the translator and activist, who passed away last week at age 97, and her family managed to escape the French concentration camp they were in the Gurs Internment Camp before the Jews were deported to Eastern Europe, the majority of them perishing in the Nazi death camp."
Vienna, Austria
"Marion was born Mary Renate Erster in Vienna in 1931, the daughter of a Jewish furniture salesman."
Belgium
"her father, who was also a social democrat, couldnt stay in the country and escaped with her older sister to Belgium."
Switzerland
"The family kept running all through the war, and finally ended up in Switzerland."
Miami, Florida, United States
"She attended college in Miami, worked at a department store, got married to her first husband and had a daughter."
Israel
"The two talked about their mutual love for French literature and later married in Israel in 1969."
United States
"She was a founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

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