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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 – Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 [245] Elisha Wiesel (born 1972) – chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel; Alec N. Wildenstein – businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder [246] Jocelyn Wildenstein – socialite [246]
Elie Wiesel [65] A-7713 September 30, 1928: July 2, 2016: 87 Jewish May 17, 1944 – January 1945 Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986). His mother and younger sister are gassed immediately. Transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel's father, Shlomo, was beaten [66] and killed. [67]
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.
In the 1990s, she shot films with a Jewish theme like Tutajosok (Memories of a River, 1990) and To speak the Unspeakable: The Message of Elie Wiesel (1996). Elek was married to the Hungarian film director Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács (1936–2014).
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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 ...