Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night.

Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [ASL] American Masters

Premiered February 02, 2026
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire [ASL]

This version contains on-screen ASL interpretation. Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a journalist in France before immigrating to America. Wiesel fought the “sin of indifference” by writing, teaching, and speaking truth to power.

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