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 ...

The largest Nazi-occuiped concentration camp during World War II, Auschwitz, was liberated 75 years ago this week, marking the end of the Holocaust, which saw six million Jewish victims. Boston ...

In 2005, President George W. Bush asked a small group of Americans to represent him at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel was a member of that delegation, as was I.

Wiesel’s mother and one of his sisters were killed at Auschwitz, and his father died just weeks before the camps were liberated. Emaciated and sick, Wiesel was among the survivors liberated by ...

April 11, 1945 – The Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated. Wiesel and other orphans are sent to France. 1958 – Wiesel’s book, “La Nuit,” is published.

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...

It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free ...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel remembered 03:07. NEW YORK --Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, ... a few days after U.S troops liberated this concentration camp near Weimar.