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On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/strong> (27 January), the Instituto Cultural Rumano (ICR)<\/strong> will screen next Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Centro Sefarad-Israel<\/strong> the documentary film Romanians Who Changed the World: Elie Wiesel <\/em><\/strong>(pictured) made by Ruxandra \u0162uchel<\/strong> for Romanian National Television (TVR).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The event opens this year’s series of recommendations by the ICR Madrid under the slogan Biblioteca ICR Madrid<\/em> recomienda and is organised under the auspices of the Romanian Embassy.<\/strong> The event will be opened by the Romanian Ambassador, George Bologan,<\/strong> accompanied by a specialist from the Centre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Romanians who changed the world is a series of portrait documentaries produced by the Romanian National Television (TVR) about the geniuses who put Romania on the world map. The country’s most brilliant minds are presented from the perspective of the path they followed and the changes they brought to the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The documentary, which will be screened in the original version with English subtitles, tells the story of Elie Wiesel,<\/strong> one of the personalities who built Romania’s image. The filming took place in various spaces and places where the protagonist concentrated his work, but also his personal life, such as the Elie Wiesel Memorial House – the Museum of Jewish Culture in Maramure\u0219 in Sighetu Marma\u021biei (Maramure\u0219 region).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elie (Eliezer) Wiesel (30 September 1928, Sighet – 2 July 2016, New York) was a writer and journalist born into a family of Jews in Romania, who wrote in French, English, Yiddish and Hebrew, essayist and humanist philosopher, human rights activist, Holocaust survivor. In 1986 he received the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1996 he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2001 he was elected honorary member of the Romanian Academy. He published 57 books, the most famous being Night,<\/em> an autobiographical account of life in the Nazi death camps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Instituto Cultural Rumano is screening the documentary film Romanians Who Changed the World: Elie Wiesel at the Centro Sefarad-Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-art","category-leisure"],"yoast_head":"\n