Who is Elie Wiesel?

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, now a part of Romania. Elie Wiesel was the author of the Holocaust memoir ‘Night’, which detailed his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. A major text in Holocaust literature, the book has been translated into 30 languages and has sold more than ten million copies in the United States. After winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, Elie Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation in 1986. The foundation’s mission is “to combat indifference, intolerance, and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding, and equality.” As the Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust established by President Jimmy Carter, Wiesel played a major role in the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust.

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