Timeline 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.

Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was perhaps best known for his major role in promoting Holocaust education, and for perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust in the post-World War II era with ...

NOBEL PRIZE winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks at a special session of the UN General Assembly in 2005. The teachers were amazed that their students knew little or nothing about the ...

Timeline 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.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died Saturday at the age of 87. As news of Mr. Wiesel's death spread, tributes poured in from around the world.

Timeline 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.

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let July 2 be the day the world listens—and acts.

Timeline 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.