Elisha Wiesel, son of the late-Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel, is joining forces with international human rights advocates to draw attention to the Chinese government's repression of ethnic Uyghurs.

The big picture: Elisha Wiesel, son of Elie Wiesel, tells Axios that any removal of language talking about the genocide of Uyghurs is inhumane and echoes other efforts in history to erase genocide.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 ... open to events of the world. He insisted that his son study modern Hebrew as well, so that he could read the works of contemporary writers.