Elie 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.
Marion Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, translator, wife of Elie Wiesel, dies at 94
Wiesel translated 14 of her husband’s books from French to English, according to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, including one edition of the Auschwitz death camp memoir Night.
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Away from despair and toward hope: A conversation with Elie Wiesel’s student and friend
Documentary 'The Shoshani Riddle' takes KAN 11
The world cannot afford to forget Elie Wiesel - opinion
Now is precisely the time Elie Wiesel's work and life should be remembered. We must carry on his mission of bearing witness, and his role as "messenger to mankind."
Elie Wiesel meeting taught that it takes time to digest tragedy - opinion
The day of his arrival, I saw him from afar walking with the rabbis, a thin, dark-haired man, chest concave — enwrapped, it seemed to me, in a mist of sadness, not fully of this world.
NYC police tell Elisha Wiesel to put away Israeli flag at anti-Israel protest
Police made several arrests at the protest, which began at Grand Central Station and continued onto Penn Station, stopping along the way at Port Authority Bus Terminal.
There's no Jewish leader that spoke for us with as much integrity as Elie Wiesel - opinion
As a teacher, he was uniquely compelling and continues to inspire through The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.
Holocaust education: We must show people the evils of antisemitism - opinion
What is the role of Holocaust education? It’s not the answer to a 2,000-year-old problem that manifests itself in multiple forms.
Philaldelphia high school librarian told to take down Elie Wiesel poster
The district allowed the high school to put the posters back up the next day and used a statement highlighting that Wiesel's memoir is part of its curriculum.
Grapevine November 30, 2022: An intimate state dinner
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Elie Wiesel Foundation to launch new ‘hybrid’ philanthropic strategy
The organization said its new approach will not only support human rights through funding but also through working side by side with human rights groups.
Hungary's Viktor Orbán is not antisemitic - opinion
It was an Orbán government that established the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust and founded the Holocaust Museum.
Children of the Holocaust: The last remnant - opinion
Elie Wiesel's death in July 2016 is the beginning of the end of the eyewitnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust
My father Elie Wiesel would have been ashamed of Beijing Olympics
Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of “peace and friendship” while simultaneously terrorizing its Uyghur minority.
