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Wiesel assaulted in elevator
Elie Wiesel, the renowned Holocaust author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was attacked and dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on its Web site on Friday. Citing police officials, the newspaper said Wiesel was possibly assaulted by a Holocaust denier who claims to have stalked him for weeks. Wiesel, 78, was at the Argent Hotel on Feb. 1 for a conference when he was confronted at around 6:30pm in an elevator by a man insisting that he wanted to interview the author, the report said. Wiesel said he would do the interview in the lobby of the Third Street hotel, but the man insisted on going to Wiesel's room, the paper said.
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