Holocaust Biographies; Elie Wiesel: Spokesman for Remembrance

Elie Wisel's journey led him from the childhood in the Romania/Hungarian countryside to achievements on the world stage, where he became a renowned author and teacher, Nobel prize winner, and chairman of the presidential body that planned the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Before being freed from Buchenwald in 1945, Elie suffered in the concentration camps of Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna.