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.

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.

First there was a small-town Jewish childhood in Romania, infused with Sabbath rest, Jewish books, and a mother’s cosmopolitan perspective. Fascist violence followed: the shuttering of Wiesel’s ...

Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, the new documentary portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, and Jewish writer who devoted his life to sharing the story of what millions of his ...

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 to a very religious Hassidic family in Seagate, to Elisha and Sarah Weisel. His parents owned a small shop; ...

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 ...

Marion Wiesel, wife of Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor and renowned author Elie Wiesel, died on Sunday at her home in Greenwich, Conn., at age 94.

Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, “Night,” and who encouraged him to pursue a wide-ranging public ...

The yahrzeit for Elie Wiesel will include survivors of Oct. 7 and a Holocaust survivor. The memorial service will take place in Jerusalem on June 22, with plans to include Oct. 7 survivors in the ...