In 1928, Elie Wiesel was born to Jewish parents in Germany. The Nazis began their oppression of Jews in Germany in the 1930s; in the spring of 1944, Wiesel, his parents and his sisters were forced onto train cars headed for concentration camps. His mother and his young sister were immediately put to death. Elie's father survived until 1945, but died shortly before Allied troops liberated the camp where father and son had been contained. Parentless...

"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger--devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend--takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself--a...

An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.

Foremost among well-known holocaust survivors, as spokesperson, lecturer, professor, witness, world figure....stands Elie Wiesel. Author of fifty books. Nobel Peace Laureate. As an observant Jew, a most predictable question arises following his public lectures: In the face of your God s failure to save six million Holocaust victims, how can you still embrace belief? God s Inner Circle gathers, organizes, discusses and honors a selection of his multiple...

Provides details of the life of Elie Wiesel, from his childhood in Romania and his development as a writer to his humanitarian works.