Elie Wiesel lights a candle in the Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2012. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press ...

Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and author who survived the Holocaust, gives a speech titled "On the Threshold of the 21st Century" at Eckerd College on Feb. 9, 1994, in St. Petersburg.

In 2005, journalist Laurence Rees described the inner workings of the Nazi death camp in his book, Auschwitz: A New History, and Elie Wiesel spoke in 1988 about his experience at Auschwitz.