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Honoring Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust Witness Who Kept a Memory Alive. Five months after the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate died, family members and political figures gathered at the United ...
"The Sonderberg Case" (Alfred A. Knopf, $25), by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson: After more than 60 years, over 50 books and a Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel is ...
Mourners attending a private service for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel say his death is also a great loss because there’s one less Holocaust survivor in the world.
NEW YORK (AP) – Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has died. ... Sara and I send out condolences to his wife Marion and the Wiesel family. May him memory be blessed forever.” ...
Cathedral stone carver Sean Callahan created the bust and Wiesel’s family was consulted on its design, the statement said. Wiesel’s widow, Marion, is the vice president of the Elie Wiesel ...
“I was privileged to know Elie and to learn so much from him.” Born in Romania, Wiesel was 15 when he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his family in 1944.
The death of World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was mourned on Sunday by admirers around the world who honored his life-long fight for millions of Holocaust ...
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — Fifteen-year-old Elie Wiesel wasn’t afraid of anything. He wasn’t afraid when the Nazis occupied Romania where he and his family lived.
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer, and Nobel laureate who died Saturday at age 87, not only shaped how the world remembers the Holocaust, but how the memory of atrocity can help prevent ...
So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers ... the deeply studious Eliezer absorbed the strict traditions of Orthodox Judaism observed by his family.