Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older sisters ...

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was “the conscience of the world” and a “living memorial” who compelled humanity to act in the face of suffering, President Barack Obama said on ...

Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Simone Veil — we know some concentration camp survivors today because of the testimonies they wrote, or their political or literary work. Their names will shine during the ...

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most influential writers to emerge from the Holocaust, drawing deeply on his own experiences in two Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Shaped by both ...