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Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel

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Carter establishes the President’s Commission on the Holocaust

πŸ“… 1 November 1978

President Jimmy Carter established a commission chaired by survivor and writer Elie Wiesel to recommend how the United States should remember and teach the Holocaust. The commission proposed a...

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated

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