American · b. 1928
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known for Night, one of the most important and widely read memoirs of the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel survived the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager, losing most of his family, and devoted his life to bearing witness and fighting indifference to atrocity.
His memoir Night (1960), a spare and devastating account of his experience in the camps, has become one of the foundational texts of Holocaust literature, read by millions. He wrote dozens of other books and became a leading moral voice against genocide and injustice worldwide.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Wiesel is honored as a witness, teacher, and conscience of the twentieth century, his work a permanent reminder of the duty to remember.
by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences as a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy deported from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. One of the foundational documents of Holocaust testimony — a first-person account of the camps, the death marches, and the systematic destruction of faith, family, and identity.
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