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Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let July 2 be the day the world listens—and acts.
It is the story of the Wiesel family being sent to the Nazi concentration camps. 1960 – “Night,” the English translation of “La Nuit,” is released. 1963 – Becomes an American citizen.
It is the story of the Wiesel family being sent to the Nazi concentration camps. 1960 – “Night,” the English translation of “La Nuit,” is released. 1963 – Becomes an American citizen.
From Alvin Ailey to Elie Wiesel, 14 standout moments from 150 years of the 92nd Street Y The pioneering Upper East Side Jewish cultural institution celebrates its sesquicentennial this year.
Florida Holocaust Museum chosen to house permanent collection of famed author Elie Wiesel The museum says the writer's collection will be phased in over a number of years, but the redesign and ...
Rabbi Diane Elliot Rabbi Diane Elliot It was August 1966, the summer before my senior year of high school, and I was attending a Reform movement summer camp in Wisconsin when Elie Wiesel came for a ...
The day of his arrival, I saw him from afar walking with the rabbis, a thin, dark-haired man, chest concave — enwrapped, it seemed to me, in a mist of sadness, not fully of this world.
When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable There’s a lesson in how the Holocaust survivor had to wait before he could tell his story, writes a ...
Elie Wiesel visited the Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati in 2012 when nearly 7,000 individuals came to hear him speak at Xavier University.
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was a writer and human rights activist. He chronicled his experience surviving the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in his memoir Night.