Born September 30, 1928 Sighet, Romania Writer, teacher, and human rights activist Elie Wiesel. . "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy,...

(born September 30, 1928, Sighet, Romania) Romanian-born Jewish writer, whose works provide a sober yet passionate testament of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. Wiesel's early...

Noted Holocaust survivor and novelist, winner in 1986 of the Nobel Peace Prize. A leading representative of survivors of Nazi concentration camps and a champion in the fight against oppression and racism. Wiesel has spent his life describing the...

(born Sept. 30, 1928, Sighet, Rom.) Romanian-born U.S. novelist. Living in a small Hasidic community, Wiesel and his family were deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald; his parents and sister were killed. All his works reflect his...

Elie Wiesel KBE (born Eliezer Wipyler on September 30, 1928) [1] is a Romanian-French-Jewish novelist, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the publisher of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a novella that...