elie wiesel

     

"Night" is this Nobel Peace Prize winner's account of surviving Auschwitz as a teenager

Trivia about elie wiesel

  • The author of "A Beggar In Jerusalem", this concentration camp survivor won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
  • Oprah Winfrey wrote that this Holocaust survivor "taught us how to answer evil"
  • This Holocaust survivor's semi-autobiographical first book was published in Yiddish in 1956
  • Jimmy Carter named this Nobel Peace Prize winner chair of the President's Commision on the Holocaust