TODAY IN HISTORY -1985 - President Reagan presents Elie Wiesel with the Congressional Gold Medal: The ceremony also marked the signing the Jewish Heritage Week Proclamation. Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including “Night,” a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. When he received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor of the US Congress, Reagan said to him: “How does life continue in the face of this crime against humanity? The survivors swore their oath: Never again. And the American people also made that pledge: Never again. And we’ve kept it. We kept it when we supported the establishment of the state of Israel, the refuge that the Jewish people lacked during the Holocaust, the dream of generations, the sure sign of God’s hand in history. America will never waver in our support for that nation to which our ties of faith are unbreakable.”
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