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The Southern Israelite The Voice of Atlanta's Jewish Community • Since 1925 ^ Atlanta^Georgia, Friday, October 17, 1986 No. 42 This year's winner Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Priz H y (/? ^ 'jj r\ r\j by Richard Bono TSI staff writer Elie Wiesel hopes that winning the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize will help him in his fight against indif ference. Wiesel, the acclaimed spokesman for Holocaust survivors, has also championed civil and human rights causes for the blacks in South Africa, the Cambodian boat people and the Meskito Indi ans of Nicaragua. “My greatest hope in winning the award,” Wiesel said, “is to sen sitize more people, to touch more people and create more awareness. The greatest enemy to me has always been indifference. I’ve writ ten some 30 books now and really every single book has as its object to fight indifference.” Wiesel, 58, was born in Hungary though as the result of war what is left of his home is now in Romania. He was 15 when he and the rest of his family were deported to Ausch witz and then to Buchenwald in 1944. Only Wiesel and his older sisters survived. In naming Wiesel to the $290,000 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee said “His mes sage is based on his own personal experience of total humiliation and Movin’ of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler’s death camps. The message is in the form of a testi mony, repeated and deepened through the works of a great author. “Wiesel’s commitment, which originated in the sufferings of the Jewish people,” the citation con tinued, “has been widened to em brace all repressed peoples and races.” Locally, as throughout the coun try, Jews are proud of Wiesel’s accomplishment. “1 feel much taller than 1 did a few days ago,” said Cantor Isaac Goodfriend of Atlanta’s Ahavath Achim Congregation. “To me this is the equivalent of the way the Jews felt after the Six-Day War. I am proud to be what I am. 1 am proud that, as a Holocaust survivor, some recognition has finally been given by an international body.” Goodfriend serves with Wiesel on the 60-member U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which has set as one of its goals the building of a Holocaust Memorial Museum. Goodfriend said money is now being raised and the project is tar geted for completion in 1989. Sherry Frank, the Southeastern area director of the American Jew- Wiesel: His commitment embraces all the repressed. ish Committee, likened Wiesel with and human rights activist, Sister another Nobel Peace Prize winner Theresa, and called them role models who are “revered i righteous of the world. “Elie Wiesel is a wonderfi model,” she said. “The Nobel i wat/w Prize he won adds significance to the Jewish community. He is one of our proudest members adding dignity to those who died in the Holocaust.” Ms. Frank said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded Wiesel with all its attendant recognition from around the world, serves as an added mem orial to the memory of those killed during the Holocaust. “The Holocaust is a part of his tory,” she said. “If it is not to be repeated, it has to be remembered. Wiesel, who currently lives in New York City and holds a profes sorship at Boston University, has written some 30 books, most of them dramatic biographical ac counts of his survival at the Ausch witz and Buchenwald death camps as a teenage boy. Wiesel told reporters it was dif ficult for him to write and talk about his concentration camp ex periences at first, but that he de cided that “not to speak would be a sin. See Wiesel, page 24. on up The Southern Israelite relocates to Northside Drive by Vida Goldgar The Southern Israelite is relocating this week to new offices in Atlanta Technology Center on Northside Drive between Deering Road and 1-75. Steve Rose, co-publisher of The Southern Israelite and president of Sun Publications Inc., the newspaper’s new owner, said, “All of us, those of us in Kansas City and The Southern Israelite’s staff in Atlanta, are very excited about our move to Atlanta Technology Center. Not only is the new office space beautiful, but it is centrally located for our advertisers and friends.” The offices will occupy 3,200 square feet in the 300 building in the park-like setting of the new Trammell Crow complex, which follows the low-rise concept. The Southern Israelite will be located in a one-story building with the interior design essentially following the open spaces floor plan. Jeff Rubin, general manager, said that final packing was to take place Thursday, immediately after this issue of the paper is ready for the printer, with the actual move taking place on Friday. “The trick,” he added, “has been to pre-pack everything that is not essential to producing this issue of the paper and be ready Monday morning to make up for lost time in starting next week’s issue.” Joining the editorial staff of The Southern Israelite is reporter Richard Bono, who has been most recently affil iated with the Southside-Fayette Sun. The addition of the Savannah native is a move toward The Southern Israelite's goal of increasing local coverage to keep pace with the growth of Atlanta’s Jewish community. The address of the new offices is 300 Atlanta Technology Center, Suite 365, 1575 Northside Drive, N.W. Mailing address is P.O. Box 250287, Atlanta, GA 30325. The new phone number is 355-6139. Friends are invited to stop by. 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