7.24.2009

My favorite Elie Wiesel stories

I'm a sucker for a good Elie Wiesel story. - Ed.

By Bradley R. Smith

She explained that she had taken classes in Holocaust studies at Harvard and felt she had a good background on the subject. I wasn’t talking to someone who was in the dark about what the Holocaust had been. I wanted to know what texts were followed in her classes but somehow she was unable to name them. She did recall the name of Raul Hilberg, and I was able to give her the title of his book, The Destruction of the European Jews.

"But the writer who influenced me most is Elie Wiesel."

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