Journalist Unearths Elie Wiesel Column About Disneyland
Published in Yiddish, way back in 1957.
Walt Disney won France’s Legion d’Honneur in 1935. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived World War II concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, received the same honor in 1984.
As a journalist at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953, Wiesel interviewed Disney. Four years later, per a column written by Wiesel in Yiddish for The Forverts (The Forward) that was unearthed by Tablet magazine contributing editor Menachem Butler, Wiesel visited Disneyland. The Anaheim, Calif.
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