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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [Extended Audio Description + OC]

Season 40 Episode 1 | 2m 43s

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. Wiesel fought the “sin of indifference” by writing, teaching, and speaking truth to power. This version contains extended audio description.

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