The film came about because the director’s friend, author and Holocaust film historian Annette Insdorf, who was close to the ...

Elisha Wiesel visited the ruins of the Auschwitz with his father, Elie — the humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world’s most recognizable Holocaust survivor — only once, in 1995.

1944 - The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945-Is moved with his father to the Buchenwald concentration camp. His father dies there.

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work “Night” is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature ...

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, has died at the age of 87, a spokesman for Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem ...

The world reacted with shock and sadness to the death of author Elie Wiesel, whose poignant memoir about surviving the Holocaust serves as a powerful testament of the atrocities capable of mankind ...

As antisemitism grows in the United States, the son of a Holocaust survivor is emphasizing the importance of teaching young people about the horrors of what happened to Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

It all depends on what one makes of that suffering.” So wrote Elie Wiesel in one of the most compelling of his nearly 50 books, “Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits & Legends” (1976).

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who used his moral authority to challenge readers and world leaders in the ensuing decades, has died. He was 87. Wiesel, who died Saturday at his home in ...

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the memory keeper for victims of Nazi persecution, and a Nobel laureate who used his moral authority to force attention on atrocities around the world, died July 2 ...

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner who documented life inside concentration camps and later became an outspoken activist against genocide, died at his ...