After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During this time he wrote his internationally acclaimed memoir, "La Nuit" (or "Night"), which has since been translated into more ...

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work “Night” is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature ...

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let July 2 be the day the world listens—and acts.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner who documented life inside concentration camps and later became an outspoken activist against genocide, died at his ...

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who used his moral authority to challenge readers and world leaders in the ensuing decades, ... His book, originally written in Yiddish, was published in French in ...

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the ...

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 had existed there since 1640, when it sought ...

Elie Wiesel was 17 years old when he was liberated. It’s not so much where one comes from, ... and 1955 he wrote “Le Nuit,” which was translated into “Night” in 1960.

Elie Wiesel never made Israel his home, but Israelis considered the author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate as one of their own anyway. Elie Wiesel 'died as a hero in Israel,' but it wasn't always ...

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, has died at the age of 87, a spokesman for Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, said ...