The life and career of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who authored 57 books, taught as a university professor and championed human rights over his decades-long career.
American Masters “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” airs Tuesday, January 27 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV.
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a journalist in France before immigrating to America. Over the course of his life, Wiesel fought the “sin of indifference” by writing, teaching, speaking truth to power and championing for human rights.