Elie Wiesel at 15 Most ghetto occupants would later be forced into concentration camps, and that fate befell Wiesel's family in 1944.

Elie Wiesel moved readers with his words. In books and speeches, he eloquently spoke for a generation of wounded – the traumatized survivors of the Holocaust.

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 best-selling book details Wiesel's experiences in Nazi concentration camps. "I confess that reading this document shook me up much more than the action itself," Wiesel said.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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