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.

Elisha Wiesel visited the ruins of the Auschwitz with his father, Elie — the humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world’s most recognizable Holocaust survivor — only once, in 1995.

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, has died at 87, ... His family said he died peacefully Saturday after a long illness. “My husband was a fighter.

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, ... first encountered Wiesel’s writing as a 12-year-old boy at his family’s home in Minnesota. Serving as a witness, ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel witnessed the unimaginable when he was only 15. And what he saw has defined his life ever since. Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania).

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who used his moral authority to challenge readers and world leaders in the ensuing decades, has died. He was 87. Wiesel, who died Saturday at his home in ...

Tiring Mission. It's a Wednesday evening, and Wiesel has plonked onto the teal-green couch in his family's eclectic, art- and book-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

At the age of 15 he was deported to Auschwitz with his family, ... Holocaust activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, 83, in his office on in New York on Sept. 12, 2012.

Elie Wiesel pays homage to their memory by gathering the lives of these martyrs into one fictional character, a Jew converted to communism, who sheds his innocence year by year.Finally imprisoned ...

Elie Wiesel lights a candle in the Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2012. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press ‘S uffering, in Jewish tradition ...

Elie Wiesel pays homage to their memory by gathering the lives of these martyrs into one fictional character, a Jew converted to communism, who sheds his innocence year by year.Finally imprisoned ...