Wiesel’s “Night,” a spare, searing memoir of the 11 months he spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, had been published in English just a few years before. Now Wiesel would come to a different kind of ...

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work “Night” is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature ...

On 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, Elie Wiesel's son, Elisha Wiesel, recalls visiting the death camp with the Nobel Peace Prize winner who wrote extensively about the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner who documented life inside concentration camps and later became an outspoken activist against genocide, died at his ...

Read CNN’s Elie Wiesel Fast Facts and learn more about the life of Holocaust survivor, ... 1944 - The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15.

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...

Wiesel barely survived to see the American troops liberate the camp in April 1945, and joined a group of 400 Jewish orphans sent to France. He was later reunited with two sisters, Hilda and Bea ...

Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Hertz, left, walk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama at the Buchenwald camp near Weimar, Germany, on June 5 ...

Obama, Wiesel speak at former concentration camp The president tours Buchenwald with a famous Holocaust survivor, ... Elie Wiesel. All three spoke after the tour; ...

In his autobiographical book, "Night," my father, Elie Wiesel, described the daily horror he and more than a million other Jews suffered in Auschwitz, the most infamous Nazi death camp.My father's ...

Elie Wiesel in Paris after being awarded the French literature Medicis prize for his novel "Le Mendiant de Jerusalem," Nov. 26, 1968.(/AFP/Getty Images) Advertisement Rabbi Diane Elliot ...