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God Tested Wiesel But He Kept His Faith

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Credit: David Shankbone

Elie Wiesel in 2012.

Elie Wiesel was born in Romania before World War II. He was deported to Buchenwald, and was the only one in his family to survive.

Wiesel has spent much of his career memorializing the horror of the Holocaust, beginning with the publication in 1958 of the French-language version of his book " Night."

In 2012, he talked with KNPR's State of Nevada on the eve of being honored at the Adelson Educational Campus's 8th Annual In Pursuit of Excellence Gala.

Wiesel talked about how he kept his faith even while questioning how a God could allow the Holocaust. He also had no answer for why he -- a self-described frail boy whose health suffered -- survived, while those much stronger died in Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

 

 

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