Germany’s coming to terms with the Nazi past was a difficult, contradictory, and long-winded process, illustrated by its evolving attitude toward Wiesel.
Five months after his death, Elie Wiesel’s family gathered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday with prominent political figures to honor his contributions to Jewish history and memory.
While Wiesel leveraged his literary talents to win sympathy for Jewish victims of genocide, he sought to limit the narratives of other groups subjected to industrial-level extermination.
