Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, the human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author, was born in Romania on #ThisDayInHistory in 1928. Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps in 1944. Following the war, Wiesel published, in Yiddish, a memoir about his experience in the camps “And the World Remained Silent” in 1956. The book was shortened and published as Night for English readers in 1960. The memoir would eventually become an acclaimed bestse