About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Andrew Goldberg (director), Ani Ma'amin, Band of Brothers (TV miniseries), Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim, Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim (album), Deaths-Head Revisited, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel bibliography, Holocaust (TV miniseries), Holocaust pornography, Imagination Is the Only Escape, Incident At Vichy, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Jean Amery, Kaddish (album), KZ Manager, Le genie du mal, List of composers influenced by the Holocaust, List of Holocaust films, Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust, Railroad Collage, Saul Balagura, Stalag fiction, Stolperstein, Terezin: The Music 1941 44, The Blood of Others (film), The Child Dreams (opera), The Holocaust in popular culture, The Painted Bird, The Passenger (opera), The Winds of War (TV miniseries), War and Remembrance (TV miniseries), We Will Never Die, Yehiel De-Nur, Yonassan Gershom. Excerpt: Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (; born September 30, 1928) is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. The house where Wiesel was bornWiesel was born in Sighet, (now Sighetu Marma iei), Maramure, Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. In the home, Wiesel's family spoke Yiddish most of the time, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Elie's mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Dodye was active and trusted within the community, and in the early years of his life had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry. Elie's father, Shlomo, instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study the Torah. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother Sarah promoted faith. Wiesel had three siblings older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, and younger sister Tzipora. Beatrice and Hilda survived the war and were reunited with Wiesel at a French orphanage. They eventually emigrated to North America, with Beatrice moving to Montreal, Canada. Tzipora, Shlomo and Sarah did not survive the
