NEW YORK — Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered at Fifth Avenue Synagogue to honor the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize ...

Read CNN’s Elie Wiesel Fast Facts and learn more about the life of Holocaust survivor, ... 1944 - The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15.

Several days before he passed, Elie Wiesel told his son that he dreamed he was back in his hometown of Sighet, Romania walking with his parents and a sister who were killed in the Holocaust. &#8220… ...

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, has died at 87, ... His family said he died peacefully Saturday after a long illness. “My husband was a fighter.

Wiesel, 87, died on Saturday at his home in New York City. Forwarding the News Thoughtful, balanced reporting from the Forward and around the web, bringing you updated news and analysis each day.

The Wiesel family. She married F. Peter Rose in the late 1950s and had a daughter, Jennifer. While her marriage was falling apart, she met Mr. Wiesel.

In assessing the life of this great and humble man, what is often unappreciated is what Elie Wiesel did not do. Here was a young man whose father lay dying in his arms, and most of whose family ...

The film came about because the director’s friend, author and Holocaust film historian Annette Insdorf, who was close to the Wiesel family, had been getting requests from filmmakers who wanted ...

Read CNN’s Elie Wiesel Fast Facts and learn more about the life of Holocaust survivor, ... 1944 - The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15.

Life for Wiesel and his extended family changed tragically in 1943 and 1944, when Nazi Germany decided that the Jews living in the Axis nations of Eastern Europe — Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria ...