Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928) is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is "Night", a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel, author of Night, Dawn, and Day, Souls on Fire, The Forgotten, and The Oath speaks with Don Swaim about Wiesels career as a writer. wiredforbooks.org/eliewiesel/
The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ewieselperilsofindiffer...
Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40 books, including the memoir Night, about his experiences at Auschwitz, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. www.examiner.com/a-556256~Author_attacked_in_S_F__hotel.html
With these words, Elie Wiesel, launched into a rant full of Zionist mythology on the editorial pages of The New York Times (NYT 1/ 24/2001). www.mediamonitors.net/amr9.html
Life in Sighet, Romania - 1920-1939 Born in Sighet, Wiesel was just fifteen years old when he, his family and most of the Sighet population were deported to Auschwitz. www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/