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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
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.
Wiesel then attended Yale University, graduating with a B.S. in computer science in 1994. [11] [3] At one point in his freshman year, he sported a purple mohawk haircut. [12] [1] [13] After graduating from Yale, he spent a few months doing basic military training in Israel. [11] Wiesel and his wife Lynn Bartner-Wiesel are parents to two ...
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Elie Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Peace Prize, [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.
Hard-earned wisdom from the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author.
Video of President Obama's visit. On 5 June 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Buchenwald after a tour of Dresden Castle and Church of Our Lady. During the visit they were accompanied by Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, both survivors of the camp. [57]
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]