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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.
Founders Elie Wiesel and Marion Wiesel (2012). Elie Wiesel and his wife Marion Wiesel founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Peace Prize, [1] [2] using the award money from the prize to fund the organization. [3] Wiesel has experienced inequality first hand through the Holocaust and has been working in ...
Sarah Wiesel: 1905: May 1944: 39 Jewish Mother of Elie Wiesel. Gassed immediately. Tzipora Wiesel: May 1944: Jewish Younger sister of Elie Wiesel. Gassed immediately with her mother Ilse Weber: January 11, 1903: October 6, 1944: 41 Jewish GAssed with her son Tomas. Mala Zimetbaum: January 26, 1922: September 15, 1944: 22 Jewish
For the remainder of his life, Wiesel wrote and taught about peace, injustice, and the value of human dignity. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He died at the age of 87 in his ...
Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — Night, Dawn, and Day — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. [2] It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor.
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.
Marion Rose Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; January 27, 1931 – February 2, 2025) was an Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator. [1] [2] She was married to author and fellow Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 14 of whose books she translated into English. [3]
Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Eliezer Wiesel explains, "In Night, it is the 'I' who speaks. In the other two, it is the 'I' who listens and questions."