Elie Wiesel Memorial House and Sights In His Birthplace, Sighet, Romania

Elie Wiesel House, in blue, in Romania.

Problem
Elie Wiesel died only last year, in July 2016. Where can you see a memorial to Romanian born, Nobel prizewinner Elie Wiesel who wrote more than forty books including Night, mainly about the Holocaust. Is there a statue or house? Yes.

Answers
1 USA
Plaque of his saying on the Jewish Museum.

2 ROMANIA
Elie Wiesel Memorial House.

The house is located in his birthplace village, Sight.

Story
He is credited with having introduced the word Holocaust to mean what it now means, the whole burning of, an entire burning of, not just one body, but a huge number of people from not one country but almost every country in Europe.

Picture of President George Bush, and the Dalai Lama, greet Elie Wiesel. From Wikipedia.

Places to visit

1 Casa M e m o r a l i a  Elie Wiesel (Spaces inserted to prevent the automatic spell checker turning the word into memorabilia). Little blue house whose picture you can see in Wikipedia and TripAdvisor. Suggested visit 30 minutes to an hour (that means an hour for me). This house was mentioned in Elie Wiesel's book Night. Interesting that it is painted blue, which seems to be the popular local colour, also features in the Merry Cemetery.

2 House of Sculptor Patras, who carved the wooden crosses in the Merry Cemetery. His son continued it. The merry cemetery has blue memorials carved by Patras and after he died by his son. On the graves the colour blue is soothing and jolly. Black added shows somebody died early in life.

3 Sighet Village Museum (Outdoor Heritage Museum)
A reconstructed village with real buildings brought from other locations and gathered together. Includes one Jewish house.

Sighet Village Museum, Strada Muzeului Number 1, Sighetu Marmatiei 435500, Romania. 

Tel CONTACT 

+40 262 314 299

4 Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of The Resistance.

5 Short drive to Merry Cemetery.
Drive 10 miles, about 20 minutes, to the Merry Cemetery where sculptor Patras carved wooden crosses featuring portraits the joyful moments of the lives with humorous sayings. The symbolic colours are black for an early death, blue, yellow, and lots of the soothing colour of blue for everybody.

Tips
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/elie-wiesel

TOURIST BOARD WEBSITE AND OFFICES
http://romaniatourism.com/sighetu-marmatiei.html#museums

United Kingdom

12 Harley Street;
London W1G 9PG
Telephone: (+44) 207.224.36.92
E-mail (Click on the blue link. In case the link doesn't work, it is romaniatravel@btconnect.com)

United States of America

600 Third Avenue, suite 224
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: 1 212.545.8484
E-mail ( info@Romaniatourism.com )
www.RomaniaTourism.com

The tourist board also has offices in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia.

In China the tourist board lists no office, only an email.

Elie Wiesel is seventh along from left, middle row. Picture from Wiki.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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