What did it mean to be his student?
Whose student? Elie Wiesel’s.
Ariel Burger, in his wonderful memoir, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, explains what it was like to be his student. Here are his words, near the very end of the book:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a student of Elie Wiesel?
Being a student of Elie Wiesel means being yourself and culti…