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Elie Wiesel hated it. NBC'S 9-hour docudrama, Holocaust, so offended the author and survivor that he wrote: “Untrue, offensive, cheap: as a TV production, the film is an insult to those who perished and to those who survived
I remember the icy snow crunching beneath our every step, the subzero wind biting at our bare faces, the quiet utter stillness.
When it comes to humanity’s darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt.
Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, showed little inclination this week to make peace with accused swindler Bernie Madoff, whom he called "one of the greatest scoundrels, thieves, liars, criminals." “Could I forgive him No,” the 80-year-old told a panel assembled Thursday by Conde Nast’s Portfolio Magazine at New York’s 21 Club to discuss Madoff, whose alleged victims included Wiesel and his foundation, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. “To forgive, first of all, would mean that he would come on his knees and ask for forgiveness,” the Auschwitz survivor said