by ElieWiesel (Author)
The second volume of Elie Wiesel's memoirs. 'I confidently predict that nothing Weisel has written hitherto will be as widely read, or vividly remembered, as this.' CHAIM BERMANT on the first volume, All Rivers Run to the Sea. In the first volume of his memoirs, All Rivers Run to The Sea, Elie Wiesel recounted how he was born in Hungarian Roumania in 1928 and how, when he was fifteen, he and his family were taken to Auschwitz, and then onto Buchenwald concentration camp, where his parents and eight-year-old sister were killed. Of the 750,000 Hungarian Jews deported to camps in the years 1944-5, only a few thousand survived to be liberated, including the young Elie Wiesel. In this second volume, we meet Wiesel the Witness and Humitarian Campaigner: how he highlighted the plight of Soviet Jewry and of the dissidents of the communist system generally; the development of his friendships with the prime ministers and presidents of Israel, the United States and France; his tireless championing of the rights of the oppressed in Bosnia, the Soviet Union and Africa; his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Edition: First
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 07 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 000255674X
ISBN 13: 9780002556743
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than thirty books, including Night, The Accident, A Beggar in Jerusalem (winner of the Prix Medicis), The Forgotten and From the Kingdom of Memory. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honour and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. Elie Wiesel was President Clinton's representative at the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. Most of his books have been translated into English by his wife, Marion. The Wiesels live in New York City with their son, Elisha.