Elie Wiesel's literary work prompted one reviewer ... and an important leader in the Jewish community of Sighet. The mother, too, possessed a warm Hasidic piety and was a cultivated woman.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in ... The following year, Wiesel's entire family, his mother, father and his three sisters, were transported with him to Poland.

Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz ... 1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 – Is moved with his father ...

Born Mary Renate Erster in Vienna in 1931, Wiesel fled with her mother across Europe and ... According to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, Wiesel joined the National Association for ...