Night By Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor

Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, September 30, 1928. He is raised by Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel in an Orthodox Jewish community. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea and a younger Sister, Tsiporah. He was influenced by the religious believes of his grandmother, he pursued religious studies at a yeshiva at a young age. In March 1944, his family was captured and sent to a Jewish ghetto where he lived until May then they were sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, where Wiesel and his father were forced into slave labor and his mother and younger sister were sent to the gas chambers. Then he was forced on to a death march to Buchenwald. In 1945 the U.S army liberated the camp. Only him and two …show more content…
In 1958 he began to write “night” his first book detailing his experience in concentration camp. The book eventually became an internationally acclaimed book. It has been translated into many different languages. Since he wrote “nights” he has written more than 30 books including a trilogy about his experiences in a concentration camp. He later began to dedicate his life to being a human rights activist. He made sure that the life of millions of Jews and others who are victims of human rights abuse are not forgotten. In the 1970s he protested the South African apartheid, then in 1980 he delivered food to Colombians. Because of his work for human rights he received the Nobel prize award in 1986, the congressional gold medal in 1985, and the presidential medal of freedom. The same year Wiesel received his Nobel peace prize Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. The foundation’s mission statement is "to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality." The foundation’s purpose is for bring people together from different places in the world and share