Elie+Wiesel+Information

=Author Information= It is at this age that Elie was deported.

Wiesels parents were Orthodox Jews. His father was very active in the community. Elie had three sisters. He was 15 when his family were forced into the concentration camp. Wiesel has published many books based on his experiance in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel Profile

Although mostly known for his books, Wiesel is also a champion of human rights and an outspoken advocate for awareness of past and potential acts of genocide. Wiesel served as chair of the Presidents Commission on the Holocaust and was a guiding force in the establishment of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bibliographies

Wiesel survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz. After the liberation of the camps he spent a few years in a French orphanage. He became involved in journalism. He started working for the French newspaper //L'arche.//Elie Wiesel Bio ~Mason Cody Mike~

=Nobel Peace Prize Information=



E.W.F Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech shows you how grateful he was, informs you about his experience and how he was forced to live in a nonlivable place such as in the ghetto and how he was later deported in sealed cattle cars to the terrible concentration camps. Elie Wiesel's Speech  Eliezer Wiesel grew up experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. He was born in the town of Sighet in northern Transylvania, near the Ukrainian border in 1928.  Elie Wiesel = = = =

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=Tomorrow's Leaders= Elie Wiesel is now associated with Boston University while bringing together 40 young incredible people from across the United States in 2000. They were able to take part in a conference evolving the focus on the community while also helping them take more action. [|Tomorrow's leaders web page]

Elie Wiesel is a Boston University Professor and also in 1986 Noble Peace Prize winner. He now is an author story teller and also a teacher. By wanting to obtain peace throughout the world and defend human rights. [|Wiesel Web Page]

By the year of 1987 Elie Wiesel codified the Elie Wiesel foundation for humanity. The foundation held a conference in Venice Italy. Multitudinous participants came from all over the world. The younger participants were able to understand the tragedies the exits around the world. [|elie foundation] -Joseph Delcina Avery