Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ... support a yeshiva in Israel established by Wiesel in memory of his father. Wiesel has, since then, dedicated his life to ensuring that the murder ...

Elie Wiesel is one of the most important people to have lived in the twentieth century. And yet, the fact that he lived at all beyond his teenage years was purely a matter of luck. He, like ...

A look back on the life of Elie Wiesel In 1944 Wiesel's family was deported to Auschwitz, where his mother and one of his sisters were killed in the death camps. His father died at Buchenwald.

“Elie Wiesel was more than a revered writer ... When he was a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz.