Elie Wiesel at 15. Most ghetto occupants would later be forced into concentration camps, and that fate befell Wiesel's family in 1944. Wiesel and his father were sent to Auschwitz and separated ...

Among the students' stops covered in "In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel": Sighet, Romania, Wiesel's birthplace; Auschwitz and Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camps where the young Wiesel and his ...

Read CNN’s Elie Wiesel Fast Facts and learn more about the life of Holocaust survivor, Noble Peace Prize winner and author Elie Wiesel.

In Elie Wiesel’s book-lined office, there were no photos of the many world leaders with whom he met. In fact, there was only one photo. It sat propped on his desk facing him.

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 ...

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 ...

President Obama toured Buchenwald concentration camp Friday with Chancellor Merkel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and survivor Bertrand Herz. At 3:10 p.m. local time, the group ...

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 concentration camp. His father dies there.