How do you tell a story that everyone knows? Oren Rudavsky, in the opening scenes of his recently released documentary Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, makes the wise decision to begin his film not through ...

Did you know that Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Holocaust memoir “Night,” was, briefly, an illegal immigrant? He was run over by a New York taxi in 1956. While recovering in the ...

The son of Elie Wiesel says a new documentary about the Nobel Peace Prize winner comes as some Americans are operating with an “activated ignorance” about what’s going on in their country and around ...

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Elie Wiesel’s now-ubiquitous Holocaust memoir “Night” is taught in schools across the United States, but its mass publication and success were hardly preordained. About 10 years after the end of World ...

Notwithstanding the biting cold and the beginnings of a heavy snowfall, there was a full house at the Gelber Centre in Côte des Neiges Sunday night for the Montreal premiere of the documentary Elie ...

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The act of bearing witness doesn’t stop when you see something atrocious. You then must tell others what you’ve seen, and what it means, with a tenacity that hopefully helps ensure it won’t happen ...

The film’s premiere on Holocaust Remembrance Day is part of Honoring Our Stories: Jewish Culture and Remembering the Holocaust initiative beginning January 26. As a professor at Boston University over ...

Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a ...

When Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) decided, a decade after having survived the horrors of the Holocaust, to write his testimony, “I wanted my language to be a monument to my people — especially those who ...