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 is one of the most important people to have lived in the twentieth century. And yet, the fact that he lived at all beyond his teenage years was purely a matter of luck. He, like ...

1987 – Establishes The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity ... denier Eric Hunt attacks Wiesel and tries to drag him into a room at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. Wiesel is not injured.

Best known as the author of “Night,” Wiesel wrote more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction — and not all were focused on his harrowing experiences in concentration camps. Most people ...