Eli wiesel

Eli Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, an American professor and the author of 57 books. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed novel Night, an autobiography of his experiences in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, present-day Romania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His family was deported to Auschwitz when he was 15-year-old. His parents and younger sister perished in the Holocaust; he and his two older sisters survived. After the war, studied in Paris and went on to work as a journalist. In 1969, Wiesel married Marion Erster Rose. They had a son a 1972, who they named Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, after Wiesel’s father. In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter asked Wiesel to head the President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. For his human rights activism, Weisel has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. After he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, his wife established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

Notebooks of mysterious, influential teacher ‘Mr. Shushani’ opened to public

Scholars believe that the notebooks will reveal some potentially groundbreaking ideas and teachings related to Jewish thought and texts, the National Library of Israel said.

OCTOBER 19, 2021|ByJEREMY SHARON

In this undated photo, sculptor Chas Fagan, left, holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan, right, uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

Elie Wiesel’s bust will feature in the National Cathedral

The Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist may (or may not) be the first Jew to get this honor.

APRIL 28, 2021|ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA

Vanguards of the March of the Living

I cry when I hear a Holocaust survivor say Kaddish: “I sit there looking at him, admiring his strength and resilience, when he says that his children and grandchildren are his victory."

MAY 1, 2019|ByMATAN DANSKER

The Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Romania is covered in antisemitic graffiti

Romanian police nab suspect for Wiesel graffiti

The graffiti incident “caused pain and outrage all over the world."

AUGUST 19, 2018|ByJTA

A shameful attack on Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's legacy is more important now than ever, a point that Jewish publications ought to consider before publishing weakly argued, hate-filled drivel.

OCTOBER 9, 2017

BySHMULEY BOTEACH

WRITER, NOBEL LAUREATE and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in 2010

Hundreds march in memory of Elie Wiesel in his Romanian hometown

"This was the will of Elie Wiesel and we had to see it through," FSU Limmud Founder said about the Holocaust honor march.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

ByTAMARA ZIEVE

More than 1,500 people marched in memory of Elie Wiesel and Holocaust victims in Sighet, Romania

Congressional bill named for Elie Wiesel aims to stop genocides

The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2017 introduced Thursday serves to improve US efforts to prevent major casualties overseas.

JUNE 23, 2017

ByJTA

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” ― Elie Wiesel

APRIL 24, 2017

BySLAVICA MILOSEVIC

Why Elie Wiesel never moved to Israel

Friends seek answers as Limmud FSU opens Wiesel Memorial Exhibition at Hebrew University.

DECEMBER 7, 2016

BySTEVE LINDE

Among the dignitaries attending the opening of the Elie Wiesel Memorial Exhibition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities on Tuesday were Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, Prof. Aviad Hacohen, Prof. Menachem Ben-Sasson, Prof. David Weiss Halivni (front), M

Grapevine: Remembering and reassessing

POLISH PRIME Minister Beata Szydlo, who arrived in Israel on Monday evening, with a group of ministers from her government, had dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, greet Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, who had dinner with them at their residence in Jerusalem on Monday night.

From Aleppo to Darfur, Jews must not stay silent

Thanks to the widespread coverage of the conflict in Syria by world and Israeli media, the world has not remained silent in condemning the slaughter in Aleppo.

OCTOBER 24, 2016

BySHELDON GELLAR

ISSAM IBRAHEEM (right), 13, a migrant from Darfur, sits inside a vessel after he was rescued from an overcrowded dinghy by members of the German NGO Jugend Rettet. The rescue operation took place off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea last week.

House passes bipartisan resolutions on Israel

The resolution on Wiesel, passed by voice vote, "honors the life, work, and legacy" of the iconic figure.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

ByMICHAEL WILNER, DANIELLE ZIRI

US House passes bipartisan resolution honoring Elie Wiesel

“Elie Wiesel’s tremendous impact has reached millions across the globe, and I believe he is truly one of the most influential and important figures of our time,” Congressman Steve Israel said.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

ByDANIELLE ZIRI