[go back to our main site]Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be returning to Charlotte in September when a documentary about 12 students who retraced Wiesel’s footsteps in Europe will premiere.
As reported by the Charlotte Observer, “In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel” will premiere Sept. 21. The 56-minute film is about 12 Mecklenburg County students who went to Europe in 2007 and traced the footsteps of the Holocaust survivor.
The 80-year-old Wiesel will talk on stage with the students after the first public showing of the film at the Knights Theater. Among the places the students visited were Sighet, Romania, Wiesel’s birthplace; Auschwitz and Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camps where the young Wiesel and his family were sent; and Versailles, France, where he was given refuge as an orphan.
