New documentary on Holocaust survivor "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire" to be shown at Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest.

The church started consulting with the Wiesel family in 2017, about a year after his death. They reviewed a number of photos and chose a likeness. Chas Fagan, a member of the U.S. Commission on ...

The Lloyd M. Burstein Memorial Holocaust Film Series 2025 begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W.

Most other European Jews, including nearly all of Wiesel's family, were murdered by the Nazis. Elie Wiesel survived. Why he survived, how he survived, and how he could turn his survival into a ...

And at home in Sighet, which was close to the Hungarian border, Wiesel's family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian and Romanian. Today, Wiesel thinks in Yiddish, writes in French ...

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: ...

Wiesel translated 14 of her husband’s books from French to English, according to the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, including one edition of the Auschwitz death camp memoir Night ...

Wiesel, who was well-known internationally for his many books, essays and educational projects about the Holocaust, died on Saturday of natural causes, the World Jewish Congress said in a statement.

The words of Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, teacher and human rights activist, Elie Wiesel, have inspired ...

His foundation also lost millions. 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 ...