Elie Wiesel Born: Sighet, Transylvania, Sept. 30, 1928. At age 15 was deported with his family to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister died in the gas chambers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic Night became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one ...

Elie Wiesel returns to the Hungarian town of his birth, Sighet, where the entire Jewish population disappeared in German cattle cars. Wiesel movingly and poetically narrates the search of his past in ...

Wiesel was born in the home in 1928 and deported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz from there in May 1944 with the rest of his family and 14,000 other Jews from the town, formerly called Sighet.

Though the German thinker Wilhelm Marr came up with “anti-Semitism,” and we have Raphael Lemkin to thank for “genocide,” Elie Wiesel’s “Holocaust” is the most original term in this ...

Wiesel read an excerpt from his diary, from July 26, 1995, when he and his father visited Sighet, Elie’s birthplace. “At first I didn’t understand why start the tour in a cemetery?” he said.

A Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate, writer and human rights activist, Elie Wiesel was designated as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 1998. He lent his compassionate voice throughout the ...

From Sighet alone, 15 to 20 thousand Jews perished. Among these late deportations was a 15-year-old boy whose name is now known around the world: Elie Wiesel. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, ...

It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits & Legends” (1976).

NEW YORK – Elie Wiesel has decided to walk the nine blocks to his 10 a.m. TV interview at Rockefeller Center even though it’s 36 degrees. He’s given up on the car that was expected 10 ...

It is not yet known when or where the ceremony to award Wiesel with the honorary doctorate will take place. Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet in Romania. In 1944, his family was ...

SIGHET, Romania (JTA) — More than 70 years after fascists took Elie Wiesel to the train station of this sleepy city in Romania, hundreds of its residents retraced his steps in a march to protest ...