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      • Elie Wiesel is a Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist known for his memoir 'Night,' in which he recounted his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Elie Wiesel? Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII.

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    Eliezer " Elie " Wiesel (/ ˈɛli viːˈzɛl / EL-ee vee-ZEL or / ˈiːlaɪ ˈviːsəl / EE-ly VEE-səl; [3][4][5] Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

  4. Elie Wiesel Biography. Romanian-born American writer, speaker, and teacher Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, the massive killing of Jews by the Nazis, Germany's radical army during World War II (1939–45; a war fought between the Axis powers: Italy, Germany, and Japan—and the Allies: England, France, the Soviet Union, and the ...

  5. Who Was Elie Wiesel? This Nobel-winning Holocaust survivor brought the Holocaust and its survival to the American public. By Saul Austerlitz

  6. 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.

  7. Jul 3, 2016 · The Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died Saturday at age 87, was an ongoing reminder of one man’s endurance of the Nazi Holocaust. His words, destined to last far into the...

  8. Jul 2, 2016 · Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the...

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