Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community had existed there since 1640, when it sought ...

Among these survivors, future Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (seventh from the left, in the second row). GROB/KHARBINE/LA COLLECTION The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated on April ...