The Wiesel family Mr. Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize and his numerous encounters with world leaders still lay decades away. Friends, relatives and writers all attributed the moral stature he ...

Most other European Jews, including nearly all of Wiesel's family, were murdered by the Nazis. Elie Wiesel survived. Why he survived, how he survived, and how he could turn his survival into a ...

The church started consulting with the Wiesel family in 2017, about a year after his death. They reviewed a number of photos and chose a likeness. Chas Fagan, a member of the U.S. Commission on ...

And at home in Sighet, which was close to the Hungarian border, Wiesel's family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian and Romanian. Today, Wiesel thinks in Yiddish, writes in French ...

Fascist violence followed: the shuttering of Wiesel’s hometown synagogue, deportation by train, and the death camps, with their assault on his family and their faith-consuming flames. Through all this ...

The main difference between the two quotes is the stakes involved. Wiesel, who escaped the Holocaust, was talking about state ...

Wiesel, who was well-known internationally for his many books, essays and educational projects about the Holocaust, died on Saturday of natural causes, the World Jewish Congress said in a statement.

The words of Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, teacher and human rights activist, Elie Wiesel, have inspired ...