Author, educator and humanitarian Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and was deported to Auschwitz with his family as a teenager. Upon his liberation, he migrated to France before moving to New York, and ...

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of "Night." Over the course of his life, ...

Was a human rights advocate, speaking out about Bosnian ethnic cleansing, Cambodian refugees, and South African apartheid. Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older sisters ...

‘Suffering, in Jewish tradition, confers no privileges. 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 ...

Enduring the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, or even just contemplating them, destroyed religious belief for many Jews. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever,” ...

NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the ...

Kofi A. Annan, Author, Elie Wiesel, Author Ruder Finn Press $14.95 (87p) ISBN 978-1-932646-16-0 Celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Wiesel laments that Jewish people have always been and continue ...

Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley. By Joseph ...

Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire premieres nationwide Tuesday, January 27th at 9 p.m., pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS App. Yes, ...

A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust. By Alex Traub His art included cartoons for The New ...