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Elie Wiesel - Wikipedia. Eliezer " Elie " Wiesel (/ ˈɛli viːˈzɛl / EL-ee vee-ZEL or / ˈiːlaɪ ˈviːsəl / EE-ly VEE-səl; [3][4][5] Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 – 1986, Wiesel serves on numerous boards of trustees and advisors. 1. forty (updated by Laureate – August 99) 2. and of the victims in Bosnia and Kosovo (updated by Laureate – August 99) From Les Prix Nobel.
6 days ago · Elie Wiesel (born September 30, 1928, Sighet, Romania—died July 2, 2016, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, whose works provide a sober yet passionate testament of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and human rights activist who devoted his life to educating the world about the Holocaust. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Browse a timeline of key events in the world and in Wiesel's life from 1928–1951.
Elie Wiesel is the author of more than sixty books of fiction and non-fiction. He had received numerous awards for his literary and human rights activities including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor.
Jul 2, 2016 · The Jewish author, philosopher and humanist Elie Wiesel made it his life's work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II. He was the world's leading spokesman on the Holocaust.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel died on Saturday at the age of 87 after a prolonged illness. A survivor of the Auschwitz and...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and international leader of the Holocaust remembrance movement.
Jul 3, 2016 · Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a Nobel laureate, and the most powerful witness for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 87 years old.
