“This was not my father’s way. He was not a shouter ... to Congress decrying President Obama’s Iran policies. “Elie Wiesel sat in the gallery of Congress to listen to the prime minister ...

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 ...

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 ...

and the Elie Wiesel Foundation wants to get these stories out. He said the move is similar to the works of his father, who often tried to draw attention to genocide and repression in Rwanda and ...

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.

“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.