{"id":648,"date":"2020-10-21T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/?p=648"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:57:39","slug":"how-i-discovered-elie-wiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/how-i-discovered-elie-wiesel\/","title":{"rendered":"How I discovered Elie Wiesel…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is by Ver\u00f3nica Rodr\u00edguez <\/span><\/i>(COM \u201820)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ver\u00f3nica is currently studying for my master\u2019s degree in Public Relations at the College of Communications at Boston University.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I have used this time at BU to explore my interests, discover passions, and reflect about where I am and where I want to go. This year, I started working at Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, where I have been creating social media content and working on ways that the center can reinvent themselves during these hard times. <\/span>Although many know the Elie Wiesel story, I didn\u2019t. Most of my life <\/span>as young Latina woman, <\/span>I have been immersed in <\/span>Catholicism: its practices and rituals. I grew up in a small, traditional, family-oriented neighborhood in Puerto Rico, where most people are Catholic. I went to a Catholic private school for twelve years, attended mass on Sundays with my family and have always been a believer. However, I did get to see more of the world as I was fortunate enough to travel to many places with my family where I learned about and was able to appreciate different cultures. When I was in eighth grade, we got to visit Auschwitz, coinciding with the time during which we studied the Holocaust in school. Perhaps, this was the last time I thought\u00a0 deeply about the Holocaust. Five years later, I attended Boston College as an undergraduate and, during these years, I became the best version of myself, in large part thanks to the Jesuit values that permeated through the entire experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During our many team zoom sessions, my boss asked me, \u201cVero, do you know who Elie Wiesel is?\u201d I thought to myself, \u201cI did research before but I don\u2019t know who he is before, or never read about him during my high school years….\u201d How could it be that I have never heard about Auschwitz survivor, Elie Wiesel. Could it be because of my religious beliefs, my past education, my surroundings, ignorance? I didn\u2019t know who Elie Wiesel was because of academic and educational background. By knowing who Elie Wiesel is, I feel enriched by not only an influential figure in history, but also about a new tradition and culture I have never been exposed to before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is by Ver\u00f3nica Rodr\u00edguez (COM \u201820) Ver\u00f3nica is currently studying for my master\u2019s degree in Public Relations at the College of Communications at Boston University. I have used this time at BU to explore my interests, discover passions, and reflect about where I am and where I want to go. This year, I … Continue reading How I discovered Elie Wiesel…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7885,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ewcjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}