GIC Presents An Evening with Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel is coming to SLU on December 1 in the Wool Ballrooms. The Facebook group already has over 1500 attendees, and counting. Here’s what GIC has to say about the event:

Elie Wiesel is an internationally renowned professor, writer, and activist. A survivor of the Holocaust, Mr. Wiesel was appointed Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against global repression in 1986. Mr. Wiesel has also been award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 1960, his work Night was published and is now recognized as a landmark work in non-fiction. Night details Mr. Wiesel’s personal experience of the horrors of the Holocaust and has become a cornerstone of educational courses worldwide. Today, Mr. Wiesel is a professor of the humanities at Boston University and campaigns actively on behalf of victims of genocide and other forms of oppression. Doors open at 6:30 and the event starts at 7 in the Wool Ballrooms.