Editorial: The Holocaust and 'Why?' Elie Wiesel's provocative answer.
by Chicago Tribune
May 01, 2019
2 minutes
There's a passage in a new book about Holocaust scholar and survivor Elie Wiesel that is at once frustrating and satisfying in its ambiguity and anger. It happens when the author, Howard Reich, amid many conversations with Wiesel, asks Wiesel the inevitable suite of questions: Why? Why is human history in part a story of anti-Semitism? Why did the Holocaust happen? Why
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