Romanian-born American writer and political activist (1928–2016)
Elie Wiesel
Wiesel in 1996
Born
Eliezer Wiesel (1928-09-30)September 30, 1928 Sighet, Kingdom of Romania
Died
July 2, 2016(2016-07-02) (aged 87) New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Author
professor
activist
journalist
Citizenship
Romania (until 1940)
Hungary (1940–1944)[1]
Stateless (1944–1963)[2]
United States (from 1963)
Alma mater
University of Paris
Subjects
The Holocaust
religion
philosophy
Notable works
Night (1960)
Notable awards
Congressional Gold Medal 1984
French Legion of Honor – Commander, Grand Officer, Grand Cross 1984, 1990, 2000
Nobel Peace Prize 1986
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1992
Order of the Star of Romania – Grand Officer 2002
Honorary knighthood 2006
Spouse
Marion Erster Rose
(m. 1969)
Children
Elisha
Elie Wiesel's voice
Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference" speech Recorded April 12, 1999
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (/ˈɛliviːˈzɛl/EL-ee vee-ZEL or /ˈiːlaɪˈviːsəl/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. 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.[6]
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people.[7][8]
He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wiesel was awarded various prestigious awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.[9][10][11] He was a founding board member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active in it throughout his life.[12][13]
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^"Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance" Archived January 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, US News & World Report, July 3, 2016
^"Remembering Elie Wiesel" Archived July 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Standard, July 7, 2016
^"The Nobel Peace Prize for 1986: Elie Wiesel". The Nobel Foundation. October 14, 1986. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
^Corinne Segal (July 2, 2016). "Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 87". PBS. Archived from the original on August 10, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
^Carrie Kahn (July 2, 2016). "Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate, Dies At 87". npr. Archived from the original on April 5, 2018. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
^"Elie Wiesl". Human Rights Foundation. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
^"Human Rights Foundation Lauds OAS Discussion on Venezuela". Latin American Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
survivor, author, professor, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient ElieWiesel. Shlomo Elisha Wiesel was born in 1972. He was named Shlomo Elisha, after his paternal...
established the President's Commission on the Holocaust, chaired by ElieWiesel, a prominent author, activist, and Holocaust survivor. Its mandate was...
This is a bibliography of the works of ElieWiesel. Portraits and Legends theological biography series Legends of our Time (Holt, Rinehart and Winston...
ElieWiesel and his wife founded the ElieWiesel Foundation in 1986, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for Peace, using the award money from the...
categorically rejected, is adopted by Schneerson in his correspondence with ElieWiesel (R. M. M. Schneerson, Iggerot Hakodesh, no. 8969, 23:370–371). ...it...
Israel. When author and Holocaust survivor ElieWiesel died in July 2016, Max Blumenthal tweeted that "Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter...
Look up Wiesel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wiesel may refer to: ElieWiesel (1928–2016), Romanian-born American novelist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
The ElieWiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018, also known as the ElieWiesel Act, GAPA or EWGAPA (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 115–441...
Department's Office of Special Investigations was a 2021 recipient of the ElieWiesel Award, the highest award of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
77 OCLC 783455868[Hebrew]. A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by ElieWiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal (Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 0671799967)...
published 29 books and edited 80 academic articles. As a fellow at the ElieWiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, Rappel specializes in...
from a Nazi Death Camp" [Editions Jourdan, 2015]. In his work Night, ElieWiesel talks about his stay in Buchenwald, including his father's death. Jacques...
Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman...
Primo Levi, author of If This Is a Man (1947), survived Monowitz, as did ElieWiesel, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book Night (1960), who was a teenage...
post-World War II Europe, and elsewhere, including Emmanuel Levinas and ElieWiesel. Not much is known about "Chouchani," including his real name, a secret...
decades after the war, survivors such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and ElieWiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences, and the camp became a dominant symbol...
the issue. The Commission, which was led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate ElieWiesel as well as Jean Ancel, released its report in late 2004. The Romanian...
1649, first published in English in 1979 by Random House) is a play by ElieWiesel about a fictional trial ("Din-Toïre", or דין תּורה) calling God as the...
his relatives to the trustee. Senator Chris Dodd donated $1,500 to the ElieWiesel Foundation for Humanity, a Madoff victim. Members of the Madoff family...
Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-29. "In praise of ElieWiesel". The Christian Century. Retrieved 2020-01-29. JBC Staff (2023-01-24)...
for research by recruiting star faculty. Two of his faculty "stars", ElieWiesel and Derek Walcott, won Nobel Prizes shortly after Silber recruited them...
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