Elie Wiesel

The Trial of God is a play by Elie Wiesel about a fictitious trial calling God as the defendant. Though the setting itself is fictional, and the play's notes indicate that it "should be performed as a tragic farce," the events that he based the story on were witnessed first-hand as a teenager in Auschwitz.

Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With …