January 14, 2010 - Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank from the Nazis and later saved Anne's diary, died this week in Amsterdam. She was 100 years old. Midday features a remembrance of Gies, plus an excerpt from an interview with Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
December 3, 2002 - Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, speaking recently at the Mayo Clinic about terrorism and how 9/11 changed America. He now teaches at Boston University and is the President and Founder of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
November 3, 1998 - Live broadcast of the Carlson Lecture, featuring Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. He is speaking at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. Before the speech, MPR host Dan Olson will be speaking with Steven Feinstein, acting director of the University of Minnnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
April 10, 1992 - On this Midday program, a broadcast of speech by Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, titled "The Renewed Threat of Fanaticism." The speech was given at the 1992 Peace Prize Forum held at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
January 30, 1991 - Elie Wiesel, a survivor of World War II concentration camps and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at Winona State University about the importance of remembering the past.