Elisha Wiesel visited the ruins of the Auschwitz ... Elie and his wife, Marion, named their only child Shlomo Elisha, after Elie’s father, Shlomo, who died at 50 after a death march to Buchenwald.

In 1972, they had a son, Shlomo Elisha, named for Wiesel's late father. In 1978, Jimmy Carter selected Wiesel to lead the President's Commission on the Holocaust, followed two years later by his ...

His son Shlomo Elisha Wiesel survives him, as does his wife, the former Marion Erster Rose, a Holocaust survivor whom he married in 1969. In his lectures, he often looked small and fragile behind ...

However his father Shlomo, who ran a grocery store ... with his wife Marion and his son Elisha, lives his life in English. Life for Wiesel and his extended family changed tragically in 1943 ...

“We knew they hated us,” Elisha Wiesel told a crowd of more than 150 who gathered at 92NY on Manhattan’s Upper East Side November 8 for “Kristallnacht Unbroken: An Evening with Elisha Wiesel.

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.

Elisha Wiesel, son of the writer Elie Wiesel, says the group’s plight has echoes of the Holocaust. By Katherine Rosman Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we are speaking with Elisha Wiesel ...