Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [Extended Audio Description + OC]
Preview: 1/27/2026 | 2m 43s
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night.
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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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [Extended Audio Description + OC]
Preview: 1/27/2026 | 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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Elie Wiesel on Palestine, trauma and suffering
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Clip: 1/27/2026 | 2m 21s | Elie Wiesel vowed to always speak up whenever people were enduring suffering and humiliation. (2m 21s)
Elie Wiesel recounts the horrors of the Holocaust in "Night"
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Clip: 1/27/2026 | 1m 56s | In "Night," Elie Wiesel recounts a memory of witnessing three victims being hung. (1m 56s)
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Preview: 1/27/2026 | 2m 9s | Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. (2m 9s)
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Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [ASL]
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Preview: 1/27/2026 | 2m 9s | Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. (2m 9s)
How Elie Wiesel's wife and son gave him a new lease on life
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Clip: 1/27/2026 | 2m 40s | Before meeting his wife Marion, Elie Wiesel "shunned love" and didn't see himself having children. (2m 40s)
How Elie Wiesel was reunited with his sister
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Clip: 1/27/2026 | 1m 10s | Elie Wiesel reunited with his sister in France. (1m 10s)
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