Conversations with Oprah: Elie Wiesel

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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From July 15, 1993 Oprah Winfrey Show: Activist, author and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Elie Wiesel, discusses his New York Time Bestseller, Night, which recounts his experience as a Holocaust survivor. Wiesel opens up about his memories of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the first thing he did once he was freed and the lessons he learned through it all. Elie Wiesel passed away in 2016 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

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0:06.3	the deeper meaning of life in the world around us even in the early days of the Oprah
0:10.2	show.
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0:39.7	I've traveled to New York City today to meet a most extraordinary man.
0:43.8	I'm sitting in the Manhattan apartment of Ellie Vizel.
0:47.9	He's an author, he's a scholar, Holocaust survivor.
0:51.4	He witnessed unspeakable horrors during World War II, as six million Jews were wiped off
0:59.4	the face of this earth, including his own family.
1:03.5	In a recent survey, it was reported that 22% of Americans doubt that there had ever been
1:08.8	a Holocaust.
1:10.2	This staggering number is frightening.
1:12.6	Here is a passage from night, his chilling memoir of his life in a concentration camp.
1:29.4	Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into
1:34.8	one long night.
1:39.9	Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turned into
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