Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel, Yiddish: אליעזר װיזעל Eliezer Vizel; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In his political activities, he also campaigned for victims of oppression in places like South Africa, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and Sudan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elie Wiesel has received more than 5,310,149 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Elie Wiesel is the 483rd most popular writer (up from 557th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Romania (up from 29th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Writer.

Elie Wiesel is most famous for his book Night, which is about his experience in the Holocaust.