Nikolaus (Miklós) Grüner survived Nazi death camps; he credits his friend Lázár Wiesel with helping him through this survival. We can only imagine the feelings he had when, in 1986, he was invited by a Swedish newspaper to meet with this old friend.
However, the reunion he had anticipated went far differently than he could ever have imagined. The man facing him, claiming to be his friend, was not the same person he had spent all those horrendous years with. Miklós claimed he had never seen the man before.
He asked the man to show him his tattoo, but he refused, and the short meeting ended. The man Miklós was facing was the Nobel Prize winner, Elie Wiesel. Miklós claimed Elie had stolen the identity of his friend in order to write a bestselling book.
