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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, describes in his book Night (1960) how he and his father, Shlomo, were forced on a death march from Buna (Auschwitz III) to Gleiwitz. [10]
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: 30 September 1928 in Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș, Romania 2 July 2016 in Manhattan, New York, United States 1970 "for being a messenger of peace and brotherhood, fighting in for the cause of human rights and building bridges between generations through his literary works." [26] Jean Halpérin et al. [x] (1921–2012) France: 1971
Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference. July 2016 ... Elie Wiesel, 87, Romanian-born American writer ...
Hard-earned wisdom from the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author.
One of the few prisoners who escaped from the camp, the Belgian Edmond Vandievoet, recounted his experiences in a book whose English title is "I escaped from a Nazi Death Camp" [Editions Jourdan, 2015]. In his work Night, Elie Wiesel talks about his stay in Buchenwald, including his father's death. [55]
The preface of the book includes a story often referred to as "God made man because He loves stories." The story imagines that a series of historical Hasidic leaders each followed a 3-step ritual for accomplishing the rescue of his respective community through a miracle.