-- Documents a short conversation between Elie Wiesel and Jorge Sempr???n fifty years after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where they were both imprisoned during WWII. -- Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and evacuated to Auschwitz in 1944. He is the author of the autobiographical novel, Night, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Jorge Sempr???n was a member of the Spanish and French communist resistance. He was captured by the Nazis in 1943 ...
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-- Documents a short conversation between Elie Wiesel and Jorge Sempr???n fifty years after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where they were both imprisoned during WWII. -- Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and evacuated to Auschwitz in 1944. He is the author of the autobiographical novel, Night, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Jorge Sempr???n was a member of the Spanish and French communist resistance. He was captured by the Nazis in 1943 and held as a political prisoner. After the war, he was a writer and screenwriter before becoming the Spanish Minister of Culture for the post-Franco socialist government. -- Adds the reflections of two important concentration camp survivors to our list in Holocaust studies. Their experiences of life in the camps was very different, but unforgettable. -- Audience will be general readers interested in history, literature, and culture, as well as scholars in Jewish studies and Holocaust studies
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