Rabbi Teluskin includes material from Elie Wiesel in his insightful book.
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After a traditional Jewish childhood education, Wiesel was sent to a concentration camp in 1944, when he was 15. His parents and a sister died in the camps, but Wiesel survived Buchenwald and was sent to France after the war, where he eventually studied at the Sorbonne. He became a journalist for a French newspaper, traveling the world in search of stories--largely in the Middle East, where he covered Israel's war for independence in 1948. His Holocaust memoir, NIGHT, was published in 1958. Wie more...
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09/30/1928 Romania, Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe,
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I found this book, while short, a struggle to read. The topic of having to carry out a death sentence, basically and struggling with your own historic demons made this book question my own values and how I viewed prisoners and their deaths during times of conflict.
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