"In The Footsteps of Elie Wiesel" chronicles the journey of twelve American high school students as they trace life experiences and formative places of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Photo and film images of the Nobel Peace Prize winner give context and weight to the student experience. Two parallel stories, woven together through time and history, collide as these young people come face to face with evil and redemption. The film is both magical and painful; surreal in its majestic cinematography, and more than real in the ugliness of which man is capable. What happens when you take the childhood from the child, the love from the lovers, and peace from the person who strives for harmony above all things? asks one student in her journal.
Audiences have a unique window into the thought process of our students as they share their journal entries and profound insights that accompany the coming of age. Teenagers have more power than adults give us credit for! Over the course of their journey, the students begin to realize that it is up to them to create a more just and humane world. Their footsteps become our footsteps.
