“The main thing is, people are still indifferent to other people’s pain, other people’s agony, other people’s suffering. That he has been an exceptionally eloquent voice, as both an author and lecturer, has brought him worldwide fame, and yet Wiesel has reached a point where he thinks about what his life has meant and how much longer he can go on. He is one of fewer and fewer witnesses still alive to recall the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, still figures he has much to say, even after more than half a century of campaigning for justice and human rights. The ordeal kept him in the hospital for a couple of weeks, he said. “I had five bypasses – five!” Wiesel said, chuckling slightly before delivering his punch line. He jokes, for instance, about the heart surgery he endured in 2011 – a brush with death chronicled in his book “Open Heart.” Still trim and gracious, he speaks with occasional flashes of humor. Elie Wiesel is 85 now, his familiar fly-away hair turning white, his skin tan and leathery.
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