Hundreds of Romanian Jews partake in night march

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(10 Sep 2017) Hundreds of people took part in a memorial march in the Romanian town of Sighet on Sunday, the birthplace of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. • Members of Jewish communities from around the world departed from Wiesel's boyhood home, now a Jewish museum, 73 years after his family was taken to the train station and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. • Wiesel shared the harrowing story of his internment at Auschwitz as a teenager through his classic memoir Night, one of the most widely read and discussed books of the 20th century. • He died in 2016 at the age of 87. • Sunday's march took place in Sighet for the first time as a sign of remembrance and of Romania's acknowledgment of the treatment of Romanian Jews during World War II. • Romania denied participating in the Holocaust until 2004, when it accepted the findings of an international commission that Romanian authorities killed up to 380-thousand Jews during the war in territories under their control. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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