| Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)Includes the names: Wiesel E, E. Wiesel, Elie Wisel, Eli Wiesel, ELIE WEISEL, Elis Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Elis Weisel, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel ... (see complete list), Elie Weisel, Ellie Wiesel, Élie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel, אלי ויזל, אלי ויזל, Élie Wiesel, Эли Визель, Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, Lily translator Elie & Edelman Wiesel, translated from the French Elie Wiesel, M. WIESEL (TRANSLATOR)' 'ELIE WIESEL, Elie; Translated from the French by Wiesel Wiesel,, Elie Wiesel; Translation & Historical Afterword Ne, Elie Wiesel. Translated from the French By Frances, Elie; Translated from the French by Wiesel Wielsel, Elie Wiesel; Adaptation For The Stage Marion Wiese Also includes: Wiesel (1) 37,656 (46,560) | 880 | 400 | (4.21) | 69 | 0 | 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 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) — biography from Night … (more) |
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Elie Wiesel has 3 past events. (show)  Required Reading Revisited Book Club - discussing NIGHT SUN, JUNE 8 at 5PM Remember those books that you were required to read in school? Required Reading Revisited is your chance to take a second (or first) look at some of those books. We meet the second Sunday of every month at 5pm. This month we’ll discuss Night By Elie Wiesel. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us : About Confronting Fanaticism and Building Moral Unity in a Diverse Society Elie WieselSpeaker for the Edward Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Series. Free and open to the public. In the Student Union, next to Carlson Library. (wademlee)
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