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 ...

Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older ...