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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.
Died: Shlomo Wiesel father of Elie Wiesel, died on this day during the Holocaust. He was suffering from dysentery and was taken to the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp . January 30 , 1945 (Tuesday)
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.
Born in 1928, Wiesel wrote extensively of his imprisonment in Nazi camps and in 1986 won the Nobel Prize for peace. Museum: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, has died Skip to ...
Elie Wiesel [65] A-7713 September 30, 1928: July 2, 2016: 87 Jewish May 17, 1944 – January 1945 Writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986). His mother and younger sister are gassed immediately. Transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, where Wiesel's father, Shlomo, was beaten [66] and killed. [67]
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]
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Hard-earned wisdom from the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author.