Here He is — He is hanging here on this gallows..." That night the soup tasted of corpses. [12] Elie Wiesel is a witness, a teller of tales, and a writer, in that order. Each of these roles is ...

I was with Elie Wiesel on the night that Iraq sent rockets into Israel. It was feared that they might contain poison gas or other deadly material. Although he had just returned from Israel ...

1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 ... Nazi concentration camps. 1960 – “Night,” the English translation of “La ...

Best known as the author of “Night,” Wiesel wrote more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction — and not all were focused on his harrowing experiences in concentration camps. Most people ...