Elie Wiesel Dragged from Elevator by Holocaust Denier
Friday, February 9, 2007
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust conscience, was dragged from an elevator and accosted in San Francisco this week by a Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks. Wiesel, author of 40 books, including the Oprah-blessed "Night," was later escorted to the airport by police.
Reports the S.F. Examiner: The suspect accosted Wiesel in the hotel elevator at around 6:30 p.m., saying he wanted to interview him. Wiesel said he would do the interview in the lobby. That’s when the attacker pulled him out of the elevator, police reported. The attack is just coming to the surface now.
In a posting Tuesday on the anti-Zionist Web site ZioPedia, a writer using the name Eric Hunt takes credit for the attack: “After ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do (I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks), I stopped the elevator at the sixth floor. I pulled Wiesel out of the elevator. I said I wanted to interview him.”
Wiesel grabbed at his chest and yelled for help, according to the posting. “I told him, ‘Why don’t you want people to know the truth?’ His expression changed, and he began screaming again. …” the posting reads. Police reported that the suspect tried to force Wiesel into one of the rooms, but ran away when Wiesel started yelling.
The online posting states that the writer intended to “bring Wiesel to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious.” Later in the posting, the Holocaust is portrayed as a “myth.”
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The people who deny the Holocaust have some real mental problems. I am so sorry that Mr. Wiesel was accosted in this way. I am not Jewish, but I certainly know the truth of the story of the Holocaust.