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Wiesel rejects Hungarian award over Nazi concerns

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Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel says he's "repudiating" a Hungarian government award he received in 2004 because top officials in Budapest attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer.

 

That memorial rite weeks ago was offensive to the 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose parents were sent to their deaths by wartime Hungarian officials. (AP)

 

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