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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. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Sigmund ...
Elie Wiesel was born on 30 September 1928 in Sighet, a town in the Carpathian mountains of northern Transylvania (now Romania), to Chlomo Wiesel, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Sarah (née Feig). The family lived in a community of 10,000–20,000 mostly Orthodox Jews.
Elie Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for Peace, [1] [2] using the award money from the prize to fund the organization. [3] Wiesel has experienced inequality first hand through the Holocaust and has been working in several different areas involving the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel reviewed the book shortly after its publication. He wrote in part, "This admirable account is as important in every aspect as the one bequeathed to us by Anne Frank. Annie's ambivalent relationships with her father, her sister, the family that sheltered her, her discovery of concentration camp horror – we laugh with her and cry ...
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980), [1] translated into English as The Testament (1981) [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel. The Testament, to be followed by The Fifth Son, and The Forgotten mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. [3]
Elie Wiesel is well known for his memoir Night that later spawned the trilogy of which Day is the final book. Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
La Nuit (Adaptation of Un di Velt Hot Geshvign) Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1958 ISBN 2-7073-0407-7: Night: Stella Rodway, Hill and Wang, 1960 Memoir Entre deux soleils (Between Two Suns) Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1970 ISBN 2-02-001140-9: One Generation After: Lily Edelman with Elie Wiesel, New York: Random House, 1970 ISBN 0-394-43915-5
Le cinquième fils (1983), [1] translated as The Fifth Son (1985) by Marion Wiesel, [2] is a novel by Elie Wiesel continuing the thematic material of The Testament. [3] It won the Grand Prize in Literature from the city of Paris .