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Apr 9, 2021 · Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016) was one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust and a world-renowned author and champion of human rights. His first book, Night , recounts his suffering as a teenager at Auschwitz and has become a classic of Holocaust literature.
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May 7, 2024 · Elie Wiesel, age 15, shortly before deportation. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small village in northern Transylvania, Romania, an area that was part of Hungary from 1941 to 1945. Wiesel was the only son of four children of Shlomo, a grocer, and his wife, Sarah (Feig) Wiesel.
The Jewish author, philosopher and humanist Elie Wiesel made it his life's work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II. He was the world's leading spokesman on the Holocaust.
Champion of Israel. Elie Wiesel was a Zionist. He believed that the rebirth of State of Israel was a modern miracle which was the Jewish people’s only guarantee against a second Holocaust. Whenever Israel was in danger, he flew there to stand with her.
A Biographical Overview. Wiesel at age 15. Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community...
Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was a noted Holocaust survivor, award-winning novelist, journalist, human rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Romanian shtetl , to an Orthodox Jewish family on September 30, 1928.
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