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US President Barack Obama (L) and Wiesel (R) are reflected in a wall at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Brendan Smialowski
US President Barack Obama (L) and Elie Wiesel (R), Holocaust survivor and Founding Chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Council, are reflected in a wall in the Hall of Remembrance at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2012. Wiesel has returned Hungary's highest honour in protest at the "whitewashing" of its dark wartime past, according to a letter published Tuesday.