Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in ... and inspired him to pursue Talmudic studies in the town's Yeshiva. However his father Shlomo, who ran a grocery store, although also religious ...

Yup. What a man, Elie Wiesel. P.S. Can’t help mentioning one more thing. He loved music, as does his wife, Marion. They were frequently in Carnegie Hall together. And, when they saw me ...

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.

and the Elie Wiesel Foundation wants to get these stories out. He said the move is similar to the works of his father, who often tried to draw attention to genocide and repression in Rwanda and ...

Best known as the author of “Night,” Wiesel wrote more ... and not all were focused on his harrowing experiences in concentration camps. Most people know Elie Wiesel as the author of ...