When Elie Wiesel was a child, he and his Jewish community in Romania began to hear rumors of Nazi atrocities, but no one believed them. ... Elie Wiesel’s former faith bloomed again.

Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith. Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced. by Charles Scriven in the February 2025 issue.

So, Wiesel’s faith endured. Then those atrocities came to his own village, and during this week in 1944, a teenage Elie Wiesel walked into the monstrosity that was the Auschwitz extermination camp.

Wiesel's gift, and that of other survivors of genocide, lies in the testimonies they convey to us and the knowledge that is passed on through their memories if we listen and learn from their ...

Indeed, Peggy Shapiro, who organized Wiesel’s lecture series at Moriah Congregation in Deerfield for 18 years, recalled a talk Wiesel engaged in several years ago with students from Solomon ...

Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, ... with Wiesel and his wife losing their life’s savings and the foundation losing $15.2 ... “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.

c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Perhaps no Holocaust survivor alive today is more widely known than Elie Wiesel, who has written and spoken. ... And I say, `Look, I have faith.

Elie Wiesel On Loss, Starting Over. By Jeff Greenfield. May 16, 2009 / 9:13 PM EDT / CBS High on the list of people taken by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme ...

Elie Wiesel, photographed in his office in New York in 2012. He died July 2 at age 87. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) Most of the discussion surrounding Elie Wiesel’s life and legacy seems to be focusing ...

President Reagan is joined at the podium by Elie Wiesel, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, during a Day of Remembrance ceremony on April 20, 1981, at the White House.

I noticed the Statue of Liberty in the back drop as thousands protested President Trump's executive order banning immigrants from seven countries from entering the U.S.