Howard Reich
First Friday Club of Chicago podcast
English - December 13, 2023 19:35 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristianity Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture chicago christian catholic dialogue firstfridayclub Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Howard Reich, son of Holocaust survivors and journalist for the Chicago Tribune, was handed a simple assignment to interview Elie Wiesel, best known for his famous Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Daily phone calls and multiple in-person meetings with Wiesel would eventually turn Reich’s “simple” assignment into four years of intimate conversations which ended shortly before Elie died. The time spent together grew into a friendship through shared stories and a common bond between Howard’s father and Elie; both men were liberated from the Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945.