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Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work “Night” is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature ...
Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, has died at the age of 87, a spokesman for Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem ...
When Elie Wiesel felt justice was in jeopardy, he spoke out. And people in the highest reaches of power listened. Two incidents make that exceptionally clear. In 1978, when President Carter ...
Elisha Wiesel visited the ruins of the Auschwitz with his father, Elie — the humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world’s most recognizable Holocaust survivor — only once, in 1995.
In his autobiographical book, "Night," my father, Elie Wiesel, described the daily horror he and more than a million other Jews suffered in Auschwitz, the most infamous Nazi death camp.
As antisemitism grows in the United States, the son of a Holocaust survivor is emphasizing the importance of teaching young people about the horrors of what happened to Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
His foundation also lost millions. 1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 – Is moved with his father to the Buchenwald ...
The son of late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel says cops forced him to put away his Israeli flag as he confronted a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during a massive rally ...
“How can you not believe in God after Auschwitz?” A rabbi put this question to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer-activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and it epitomizes one of two issues ...
The Prize in Ethics Essay Contest, established in 1989 by Professor Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion Wiesel, is an annual competition that challenges college students to contemplate an ethical ...
It was August 1966, the summer before my senior year of high school, and I was attending a Reform movement summer camp in Wisconsin when Elie Wiesel came for a visit. Wiesel’s “Night,” a spare, ...
Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told a San Francisco jury Monday that the man who yanked him out of a hotel elevator last year ignored his anguished cries for help and then fled ...