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2. Elie Wiesel - Wikipedia

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   Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity in 1986. He served as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust (later renamed the US Holocaust Memorial Council) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Sigmund ...

3. Night (memoir) - Wikipedia

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   Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.

4. International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide

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   It was organized by Israel Charny, Elie Wiesel, Shamai Davidson, and their Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, founded in 1979. The conference's objective was to further the understanding and prevention of all genocides; it marked the shift from viewing genocide as an irrational phenomenon to one that could be studied and understood.

5. Dawn (Wiesel novel) - Wikipedia

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   Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — Night, Dawn, and Day — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. [2] It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor.

6. 35 Elie Wiesel Quotes About Hope, Injustice and Gratitude - AOL

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   The world is a better place for the life he lived, and the words he shared with us. Related: Be a Beacon of Hope and Joy by Internalizing These 50 Prayers for Peace 35 Elie Wiesel Quotes

7. List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia

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   Elie Wiesel: 1928 2016 United States: writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 1968 United States: SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker Edison Uno: 1929 1976 United States: leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II Wyatt Tee Walker: 1928 2018 United States

8. Holocaust memoir - Wikipedia

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   In the 1950s, the publication of two highly prominent memoirs, namely Night by Elie Wiesel, and Diary of Anne Frank, opened up an area of writing which would see the publication of hundreds of new memoirs over the following decades.

9. Day (Wiesel novel) - Wikipedia

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   Day, published in 1962, is the third book in a trilogy by Romanian-born American writer and political activist Elie Wiesel—Night, Dawn, and Day—describing his experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] [2] [3]