Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
His memoir *Night* became the definitive literary account of the concentration camp experience.
Wiesel devoted his life to bearing witness and speaking against indifference to suffering: Wiesel's phrase "the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference" became widely quoted.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
One still alive after
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- BuchenwaldNazi concentration camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
witness · deportation · liberation · memory · suffering · tragedy · death camp · atrocity
Writer of prose narratives
- memoiristAuthor of personal recollections
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- DawnProper name suggesting beginning
- DayTwenty-four-hour span
lecturer · professor · storyteller · literature · narrative · testimony · witness · Boston University
Inalienable personal freedoms
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- justiceFair treatment under law
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
Darfur · Bosnia · Rwanda · South Africa · speaking out · testimony · witness · United Nations
Award honoring global conciliation
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- 1986Four-digit date, eighties
- OsloNorway's chief city
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
recognition · achievement · medal · committee · humanitarian · honor · distinction · acceptance speech
survivor
One still alive after
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- BuchenwaldNazi concentration camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
testimony · witness · deportation · liberation · memory · suffering · tragedy · death camp · atrocity · Nazi
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- memoiristAuthor of personal recollections
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- DawnProper name suggesting beginning
Day · lecturer · professor · storyteller · literature · narrative · testimony · witness · Boston University · prolific
human rights
Inalienable personal freedoms
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- justiceFair treatment under law
- conscienceInternal moral sense
intervention · Darfur · Bosnia · Rwanda · South Africa · speaking out · testimony · witness · United Nations · refugees
Peace Prize
Award honoring global conciliation
ceremony · recognition · achievement · medal · committee · humanitarian · honor · distinction · acceptance speech · moral authority
Judaism
Religion following Mosaic law
questioning · theodicy · prayer · Talmud · tradition · rabbi · spiritual · religious · covenant · Yiddish
- Global AuthorsToni Morrison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie
- Jewish LiteratureSholem Aleichem, midrash, Holocaust memoir
- Transylvanian Figures
- HumanitariansMother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon