Wiesel utilizes this trying medical and life – changing ordeal in his already eventful life to teach us, this time, concerning life’s universally demanding trials and transitions, courageously facing his own mortality. The present book, Wiesel’s perhaps most revealing personal one in which he opens his aching and grateful heart to us, shares and even shocks with his uniquely probing yet sensitive scalpels the watershed impact of his five bypass open heart surgery on June 16,2011 at age 82. Holocaust Memorial Council, who has earned our nation’s greatest honors along with foreign high ones, enjoys a special relationship with President Obama. This 1986 Nobel Peace Laureate – he deserves the literature prize too – and Founding Chairman of the U.S. He even admits to making enemies because of his steadfast stance against trivializing Auschwitz, protectively defining the Holocaust as “the Event” (p.40). Wiesel has risen from Auschwitz’s hell, which he entered at age fifteen, to become the world’s witness to the human condition and humanity’s prophetic voice of both sacred remembrance and chastising warning.
Open Heart is a generous gift from a truly loving heart of the most distinguished representative of the generation of Holocaust survivors. Prolific author Ellie Wiesel’s book, which originally was published in France in 2011 and became a bestseller, is light only in size.
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