Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. A Jewish community had existed there since 1640, when it sought refuge ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and BU Professor Emeritus Elie Wiesel has worked on behalf of oppressed people for much of his adult life. His personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his ...

‘Suffering, in Jewish tradition, confers no privileges. It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night,” the original Yiddish title of which translated to “And the World Remained Silent,” is the single best-known book ...

Kofi A. Annan, Author, Elie Wiesel, Author Ruder Finn Press $14.95 (87p) ISBN 978-1-932646-16-0 Celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Wiesel laments that Jewish people have always been and continue ...

This Tuesday, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, PBS will premiere the acclaimed documentary Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire on American Masters. Directed by Oren Rudavsky, the program offers an ...

Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley. By Joseph ...

00:00:11 ALICE WINKLER: There were very few Nazi concentration camp survivors who were willing to tell their stories after World War II ended. A decade passed, and then some. They had lived through ...