Eliezer Elie Wiesel KBE, born September 30, 1928 is a Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a messenger to mankind, stating that through his struggle to come to terms with his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitlers death camps, as well as his practical work in the cause of peace, Wiesel had delivered a powerful message of peace, atonement and human dignity to humanity. Wiesel was born in Sighet( now Sighetu Marmației), Maramureș, Kingdom Of Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. At home Wiesels family spoke Yiddish most of the time, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Wiesels mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Dodye was active and trusted within the community. In the early years of his life Dodye had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry. photos, 1. President George W. Bush, joined by the Dalai Lama and Wiesel, Oct. 17, 2007, to the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. 2. Elie Wiesel at the 2012 Time 100 gala. 3. Quote. 4.The house were he was born, in Sighetu Marmației...
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