Winston Churchill called the Holocaust a “crime without a name.” Elie Wiesel, one of its most eloquent survivors, would spend the rest of his life trying to find the words to describe what for many seemed incomprehensible. That he often succeeded is a testament to his greatness. In his new book, Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence, Joseph Berger profiles a man who became not only a spokesman for Holocaust survivors, but the living embodiment of their calls to “never forget.”
(Read CAMERA’s July 23, 2023 review of Berger’s book at the Washington Free Beacon)