When he was fifteen years old, Elie Wiesel survived one of the worst genocides in human history: ten million people, including most of his immediate family, were summarily executed by a fascist regime during World War II. Since then, he has spent a lifetime serving humanity as a witness to history, leading readers into the darkest dimensions of human nature. "Forget," they told the prisoners in the death camps. Elie Wiesel chose, instead, to remember.