Voices Against Indifference Initiative
A
Decade Inspired by Elie Wiesel
sponsored
by
The Leon Levine Foundation
Sandra
and Leon Levine
In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel
In this age of globalization, it
is vital that young people expand their knowledge, heighten their sensitivity,
and broaden their awareness of critical world issues so that they develop into
informed, compassionate adults. The Echo Foundation’s unique travel and
leadership initiative, In the Footsteps of
Elie Wiesel gave high school students the extraordinary opportunity to
experience the formative environments that have shaped one of the foremost
humanitarian leaders of our time, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel. Our
Footsteps Ambassadors traced the path of Professor Wiesel from his
birthplace in Sighet, Romania, to the death camps of Auschwitz in Poland, to
Versailles, France where he was given refuge as an orphan. Additionally, they visited Berlin, Germany where the
process of reparation and
relationship healing with the Jewish people has resulted in an extraordinary
model of understanding and friendship in modern times.
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