Holocaust survivor Wiesel to speak on bigotry

olocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and professor Elie Wiesel will address the need to combat hatred and bigotry at a lecture Sunday, April 10, at the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.

Wiesel was imprisoned at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II and wrote about his experiences in the acclaimed memoir "La Nuit..." (Night).

Wiesel will be the guest lecturer at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Centennial Hall as part of the inaugural University of Arizona Presidential Lecture, which is being co-sponsored by the UA's Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.

The lecture, titled "Confronting Fanaticism: Building Moral Unity in a Diverse Society," will follow a 4:30 p.m. dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the UA Student Union Memorial Center.

The dinner is to honor UA President Peter Likins and Tucson developer Donald Diamond for their contributions to the community.

Wiesel is a Boston University history professor.

Tickets are $18 or $36, depending on their location, with a $10 price for students.

Call the ticket office at 621-3341 for tickets, or visit the Web site www. uapresents.org .

Diamond and wife Joan donated $1 million that was instrumental in the formation of the UA's Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, one of the largest Hebrew and Judaic Studies programs in the country.

After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and became a journalist. He eventually began writing about his experience in the camps and has helped tell the terrible story of the Holocaust to a worldwide audience and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Wiesel then established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which advances human rights and peace worldwide.

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