A young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a taxicab. Gravely injured and unable to choose between life and death, Eliezer relives the horrors of Auschwitz, his tragic childhood, and a passionate affair.
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations.
When five passengers from a plane that was forced down by bad weather are taken in by a stranger who calls himself the Judge, they find themselves being interrogated by the man and forced to face the truth and meaning of their lives.
Elie Wiesel chronicles the events of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to the liberation, presenting photos from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and including commentary by a child of a survivor on the importance of bearing witness into the twenty-first century.
An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to kill an English officer in Palestine as a reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.
Gamaliel Friedman flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 and goes into hiding; however, years later he begins to reconcile his past when he is called upon to help an elderly woman who may very well be the woman who hid him from the Nazis.