Elie Wiesel
Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and advocate for justice.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the 1986 Peace Prize, calling him a "messenger to mankind".[1] Fifty-seven books came from his pen, with most composed in either French or English; the best-known is Night, a memoir recounting his imprisonment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Eliezer Wiesel
- Born
- 30 September 1928
- Birthplace
- Sighet, Romania
- Died
- 2 July 2016
- Place of death
- New York City, New York, U.S.
- Resting place
- Sharon Gardens Cemetery
- Language
- French
- English
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Occupation
- Writer, Professor
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary, and Wiesel and his family were placed in a ghetto in Sighet.[3] After the war, he joined a transport of child survivors to a rehabilitation center in France.[4] Eliezer Wiesel came into the world in Sighet, Romania, the child of Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel.[5] At the Sorbonne in Paris, his course of study included literature, philosophy, and psychology.[6]
Marion Erster Rose became his wife in 1969; she went on to translate numerous volumes he wrote.[7]
What the cited sources add
The HuffPost obituary notes that Wiesel lived by the credo "to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time".[8] The same source states that Wiesel and his foundation lost $15.2 million in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.[8] That source also describes how Wiesel's Christian maid offered to hide his family, but they refused.[7] The Orthodox Union eulogy states that Wiesel "succeeded in putting on tefillin in Auschwitz, at tremendous risk" for forty days.[9]
References
- "The Nobel Peace Prize for 1986: Elie Wiesel", The Nobel Foundation, October 14, 1986. facts only, no text reused. nobelprize.org
- Wikipedia, "Elie Wiesel" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Winfrey selects Wiesel's 'Night' for book club", January 16, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Elie Wiesel" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Dies", HuffPost, July 2, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Elie Wiesel" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Niven, "The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda", Harvard University Press, 2007, p. 49; Schmidt, Shira, and Mantaka, Bracha. "A Prince in a Castle". Ami, September 21, 2014, pp. 136-143. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Elie Wiesel" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Liukkonen, "Elie Wiesel", Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Elie Wiesel" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Dies", HuffPost, July 2, 2016; Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Beating the Odds: A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity, ABC CLIO (2008) pp. 154–156 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Elie Wiesel", JewishVirtualLibrary.org. facts only, no text reused. jewishvirtuallibrary.org
- "Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel Dies", HuffPost, July 2, 2016. facts only, no text reused. huffpost.com
- Staff, "Rabbi Lau: Elie Wiesel was a man of tremendous faith", Orthodox Union, 2016-07-06. facts only, no text reused. ou.org
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