I was helping the teenager prepare for her English final last week, reviewing with her Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir “Night,” which she read this semester. (I’d never read the book, a gap in my own education.) I came across this passage: “Dozens of starving men fought each other to death for a few crumbs (thrown […]
A Few Crumbs
I was helping the teenager prepare for her English final last week, reviewing with her Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir “Night,” which she read this semester. (I’d never read the book, a gap in my own education.) I came across this passage: “Dozens of starving men fought each other to death for a few crumbs (thrown […]