Night by Elie Wiesel: The Lessons of the Holocaust
Through Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, the reader gets a sense of what it was like to be a young person caught in the maelstrom of the Nazi Holocaust and the growing darkness that resulted in a never-ending night of prejudice, devastation, and death.
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The persistence of genocidePolicy Review, February-March 2011
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Science in the Service of Human Rights. (Science & Technology)Richard Pierre Claude. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2003.
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Rwandan Genocide: "Priests, Doctors, and Teachers Turn Genocidal"Mahmood Mamdani. Book Excerpt. Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources, 2006
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An Interview with Elie WieselRobert Franciosi, Brian Shaffer and Elie Wiesel, pp. 287-300
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Elie Wiesel: Reconciling the IrreconcilableDenis Diamond, pp. 228-233
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The Triumph of Humanity: Wiesel's Struggle with the HolocaustRobert J. Willis, pp. 161-178
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Holocaust Education
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auschwitz, elie wiesel, genocide, holocaust, night, rescue, resistance, survivors, ushmm, yad vashem