A condensed version of the book was published in French, La Nuit and in English, Night. For the remainder of his life, Wiesel wrote and taught about peace, injustice, and the value of human dignity.

Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author -- but he is perhaps best known for giving a voice to the voiceless. He died Saturday at 87. After surviving the Auschwitz ...

Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author -- but he is perhaps best known for giving a voice to the voiceless. He died Saturday at 87. After surviving the Auschwitz ...

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 ...

Timeline 1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 – Is moved with his father to the Buchenwald concentration camp. His father dies there.

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence By Joseph Berger Yale University Press/Jewish Lives, 360 pages, $26 Enduring the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, or even just contemplating them ...

Published first in Yiddish and then in French, the book’s sales were slow to begin; after its 1960 publication in English, the book became a phenomenon, with some 14 million copies sold to date. Much ...

Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, “Night,” and who encouraged him to pursue a wide-ranging public ...