Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)
Author of Night
About the Author
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to show more Buchenwald, where his father died. He was liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Elie Wiesel
A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal (1993) 233 copies
Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters (1754) — Author — 151 copies
Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World (2021) 23 copies
Telling the Tale : A Tribute to Elie Wiesel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday - Essays, Reflections, and Poems (1993) 9 copies
The Power of Forgiveness — Author — 3 copies
Holocaust Memoir Digest: Night 2 copies
Who's Who Among American High School Students 1993 1994 (Volume IX Illinois Wisconsin) (1994) 1 copy
La notte 1 copy
Nakts 1 copy
Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works; The Gates of Forest; Night; The Song of the Dead; The Jews of Silence. (1988) 1 copy
“An evening guest” 1 copy
Zalmen 1 copy
The accident 1 copy
The Power of Forgiveness 1 copy
රාත්රිය 1 copy
Sha'are Haya'ar 1 copy
From Holocaust To Rebirth 1 copy
Two Images, One Destiny 1 copy
Barbara 1 copy
Auschwitz and Treblinka: So much violence, so much indifference — Author — 1 copy
Will Soviet Jewry survive? 1 copy
Esau and Jacob 1 copy
A Song for Hope 1 copy
La ville de la chance 1 copy
Our Jewish Solitude 1 copy
The accident 1 copy
Home Before Dark 1 copy
Wiesel Eli 1 copy
Associated Works
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003) — Foreword, some editions — 108 copies
The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (2007) — Foreword, some editions — 90 copies
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary (1979) — Foreword, some editions — 71 copies
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Narrator, some editions — 49 copies
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (1995) — Foreword, some editions — 48 copies
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume I (1656) — Foreword — 23 copies
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume III (1771) — Foreword — 23 copies
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume II (1766) — Foreword — 21 copies
Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action (2008) — Foreword — 14 copies
Das Iaşi-Pogrom, Juni–Juli 1941: Eine Fotodokumentation aus dem Holocaust in Rumänien (2015) — Preface, some editions — 10 copies
A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture;, 4) (1997) — Contributor — 3 copies
Projekt Totentanz - memento mori Aspekte des Todes in der Kunst ; Dokumentation einer Ausstellung im Museum Bochum vom… (1998) — Contributor — 2 copies
Charlie Rose with Elie Wiesel; Amy Tan (November 9, 1995) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Other names
- A-7713
WIESEL, Élie
WIESEL, Elie
WIESEL, Eliezer - Birthdate
- 1928-09-30
- Date of death
- 2016-07-02
- Burial location
- Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Romania (birth)
- Country (for map)
- Romania
- Birthplace
- Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania
Sighet, Romania - Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Hungary
Auschwitz, Poland
Buchenwald, Germany
Paris, France
Israel
New York, New York, USA (show all 7)
Sighet, Romania (birth) - Education
- University of Paris
- Occupations
- journalist
writer
professor
novelist
author
memoirist (show all 8)
Holocaust survivor
translator - Relationships
- Wiesel, Marion (wife)
Bloch, Sam E. (colleague) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters( [1996])
Boston University
United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity - Awards and honors
- Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)
Congressional Gold Medal (1984)
Medal of Liberty (1986)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Norman Mailer Prize (2011) (show all 8)
National Humanities Medal (2009)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2012) - Short biography
- Elie Wiesel was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Sighet in northern Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. His memoirs of that experience are unforgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a worldwide bestseller. Elie Wiesel was Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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- Works
- 140
- Also by
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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The author does a stunning job of presenting the difficult subject of the Holocaust. He follows a father and son as they move from a religiously-observant life in Transylvania to the agonizingly slow and painful experience of deportation and imprisonment in a series of concentration camps. To make this story more acceptable, the author makes it neither long nor frightfully graphic. It presents in clear detail the movements and emotions of one young man caught in an unreal world and how he suffers in his attempt to survive. What causes the greatest sadness and horror to the reader is the slow realization of the degree to which man can inflict physical and emotional pain on another human being with little or no remorse. It is a difficult lesson but one which needs to be taught, understood, and remembered by all people. Elie Wiesel begins this terrible education with Night.… (more)