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Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...
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 ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau and the victims were honored at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies’ “Beyond Duty” event on Sunday, which featured heroic international diplomats who helped in ending Jewish ...
Wiesel’s mother and one of his sisters were killed at Auschwitz, and his father died just weeks before the camps were liberated.
FOR THE RECORD: Liberation: Patt Morrison’s interview with Elie Wiesel on April 24 said the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated 58 years ago. It was 68 years ago.
When Elie Wiesel felt justice was in jeopardy he spoke out. And people in the highest reaches of power listened, writes Deborah Lipstadt.
Writer, Nobel Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 4, 2010. Wiesel died July 2 at the age of 87. Writer ...
His father dies there. April 11, 1945 – The Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated. Wiesel and other orphans are sent to France. 1958 – Wiesel’s book, “La Nuit,” is published.
NEW YORK --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 ...