Elie Wiesel

writer and Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Romanian-born American

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About

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, in 1928. Deported to Auschwitz in 1944, he survived the Holocaust and settled in France after the war. His major testimony, Night (1958), became a classic of Holocaust literature. A professor at Boston University, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his fight against indifference and injustice. He founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and played a key role in establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He died in New York in 2016.

* 1928-09-28 — † 2016-07-02

Major works

La Nuit (1958)memoir
L'Aube (1961)novel
Le Jour (1962)novel
Le Mendiant de Jérusalem (1970)novel
Tous les fleuves vont à la mer (1995)memoir

Key milestones

1944Deported to Auschwitz with his family; his mother and younger sister are murdered.
1986Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998Designated a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

Themes

HolocaustMemoryHuman dignityJusticeJewish spirituality

Sources: nobelprize.org · encyclopedia.ushmm.org · eliewieselfoundation.org

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

— Elie WieselTheme · Love

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“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”

— Elie WieselTheme · History

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie WieselTheme · Politics

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“Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.”

— Elie WieselTheme · Personal Development

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