Who is elie wiesel

The Jewish author, philosopher and humanist Elie Wiesel made it his life’s work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II. He was the world’s leading spokesman on the Holocaust.

Wiesel was freed when Buchenwald was liberated in 1945. Ten years later, he wrote about his experience in his book Night. The book, as well as Wiesel’s subsequent writings and work as an educator, was influential in building the collective post-war memory of the Holocaust.

Born in Romania, Wiesel was 15 when he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his family in 1944. The future writer was later moved and ultimately freed from the Buchenwald camp in 1945. … Wiesel survived because an older Jew told him to tell the Nazis he was 18, old enough to work.

For the world to remember and learn from the Holocaust was not Elie Wiesel’s only goal. He thought it equally important to fight indifference and the attitude that “it’s no concern of mine”. Elie Wiesel saw the struggle against indifference as a struggle for peace.

Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to defend human rights and peace around the world. In 1986, the Nobel Committee wrote, “Wiesel is a messenger to mankind; his message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity.”

Even foremost Holocaust survivor and thinker Elie Wiesel, who in 2000 pushed Germany to ask forgiveness of the Jewish people, rejected a mass Jewish forgiveness of the Nazis. In a 2006 interview, Wiesel said, “I am asked occasionally, do you forgive? … No, I cannot forgive.”

Though Elie Wiesel is a deeply religious man — even when he argues with God or refuses to forgive him — Wiesel acts as if there were not God when he is asked to help.

The book is fictional, but pulls significantly from actual things that happened to Wiesel.