The Power of Remembering--Especially When It's Inconvenient to Remember

On January 31, 2006, Elie Wiesel returned to the Jewish extermination factory called Auschwitz with Oprah. At age 15, in 1944, he and his family were sent to the death camp. He visited the barrack, Block 17, where he and his father lived until his dad died. He took Oprah to the site of Crematorium III, where his mother and younger sister were first kill…