Alamosa Public Library

"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger--devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend--takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself--a...

Describes the life of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Wiesel recounts his life's story, from his childhood in the Carpathian mountains, to his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, to his career as a journalist, and winning the Nobel Peace prize

"Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life's timeless questions." "In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner - American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor - Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding...

Presents a biography of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and describes how he and his family were forced from their town in Romania and brought to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the death of his father, and how he was able to survive.

Elie Wiesel returns to the village of his birth and to Auschwitz and Birkenau, the camps where he was interned during WWII.