If You Could, What Would You Ask Elie Wiesel Thursday at Kent State?
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel will speak at Kent State University April 11 as part of the university's Presidential Speaker Series.
A few tickets remain, but 5,200 people are expected to go to Elie Wisel's appearance Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center. Wiesel is a Boston University professor, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He's the author of the world renowned memoir Night — a piece about his experiences during World War II and the loss of his family to German death camps. Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania, and was just 15 when he and his family were deported by Nazis to Auschwitz, according to his biography. His mother and younger sister died at the concentration camp in occupied Poland but his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were transported to …
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Cindi Verbelun
10:20 am on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I would ask Mr. Wiesel what he thinks is the reason that some people refuse to believe the Holocaust happened, regardless of the proof we have, and the eyewitness accounts, including his own, and what he thinks the best way to teach those people what lessons they need to learn to except that it did happen, so that it doesn't happen again. And, yes, I am also going on Thursday.. more ›