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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]
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.
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.
On 1 November 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an Executive Order establishing the President's Commission on the Holocaust, to be chaired by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. [4] Its mandate was to investigate the creation and maintenance of a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and an appropriate annual commemoration in their memory.
Hard-earned wisdom from the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize-winning author.
Dedication ceremonies on April 22, 1993, included speeches by American President Bill Clinton, Israeli President Chaim Herzog, Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff, and Elie Wiesel. On April 26, 1993, the museum opened to the general public. Its first visitor was the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. [8]
Elie Wiesel, (Nobel Peace Prize, 1986) Stefan Jerzy Zweig [10] [11] The Buchenwald Resistance is referred to in the last chapter of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, with specific description of the moment in which Wiesel is saved: The resistance movement decided at that point to act. Armed men appeared from everywhere. Bursts of gunshots. Grenades ...
An estimated 100 POWs and other prisoners died during the brutal 100-mile march in the dead of winter.