“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 ...
New documentary on Holocaust survivor "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire" to be shown at Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest.
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 was born on Simchat Torah in 1928 and named "Eliezer" after his father's father. Sighet, an insignificant Hungarian town in an area which now belongs to Romania, was the place of his ...
“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.
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.
Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, survived the occupation in hiding with his father while his mother made a... Elie Wiesel, trans. from the French by Catherine Temerson. Knopf ...
Rereading Night, Elie Wiesel’s acclaimed account of his Holocaust experience ... He tells of seeing his father weep, something he had never thought possible. You get the idea.
Here is a look at the life of Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel. Personal Birth date: September 30, 1928 Death date: July 2, 2016 Birth place: Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) Birth name: ...