April 19,1985 – President Ronald Reagan presents Wiesel with the Congressional Gold Medal. 1986 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. 1987 – Establishes The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

The short, sad-eyed Wiesel, his face an ongoing reminder of one man's endurance of a shattering past, summed up his mission in 1986 when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: "Whenever and wherever ...

He embraced the comradery of the synagogue and continued to love Talmud study. When he was granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Wiesel began the public lecture that awardees traditionally offer by ...

Hungarian-born Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel attends a symposium of Jewish-Hungarian solidarity in Budapest's parliament on December 9,2009.