Elie Wiesel’s Homecoming
Back in Sighet, twenty years later.
July 5, 2016
Elie Wiesel’s Homecoming
Back in Sighet, twenty years later.
Twenty years after he and his fellow Jews were deported from the Transylvanian town of Sighet, Elie Wiesel, who died this past Saturday at eighty-seven, returned to his birthplace. Here is the 1965 essay he wrote on his visit:
July 5, 2016
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