Most other European Jews, including nearly all of Wiesel's family, were murdered by the Nazis. Elie Wiesel survived. Why he survived, how he survived, and how he could turn his survival into a ...

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in ... And at home in Sighet, which was close to the Hungarian border, Wiesel's family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian and Romanian.

His foundation also lost millions. 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 ...

Best known as the author of “Night,” Wiesel wrote more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction — and not all were focused on his harrowing experiences in concentration camps. Most people ...