Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania or now Romania. He was sent to Auschwitz when he was 15. His father and him were later sent to Buchenwald, Buna, and Gleiwitz. As he grew up he learned to speak Yiddish, Hungarian, German, and Hebrew. He was part Jewish. In his early years he studied religious studies.

This is when he was 15 years old and was captured by the Nazis.

In 1945 his camp was freed by American troops. He later found out that his father, mother, and little sister did not survive. And his only family that did was his two older sisters.

He quoted, “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must- at that moment- become the center of the universe.”

He was 16 when his camp was liberated. When he looked in the mirror in the hospital after the camp was freed he said, “A coarpsed gazed back at me. I struggled to survive.”

Elie Wiesel a survivor became a huge spokesman on the Holocaust. And later becomes a journalist for France, Isreal, and the United States. He later becomes a teacher at Boston about the Holocaust. He wrote a book called La Nuit or Night about his life in the camps and the horrors that happended .

He later quotes, “Let us remember, let us remember the heroes of Warsaw, the Martyrs of Treblinka, the children of Auschwitz. They fought alone, they suffered alone, they lived alone, but they did not die alone, for something in all of us died with them.”

He becomes a professor in Judaic Studies at Uni of New York in 72-76. And later at Yale. He tied to become a citizen of the United States. After being hit by a taxi he learned he was a eligible to be a resident. So finally after a long 5 years he gets it.

A few years after being hit President Carter made him Chairman of the Commission of the Holocaust. Two years later he was made Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He received 100 honorary degrees.

This is him after he becomes chairman.

He quotes, “ Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.”

These are some more photos after he was slected chairman.

“ Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall the little faces of children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”

He later writes 35 more books about Judaism and the Holocaust. He married Marion who also survived the camps. He married her in 1969.

This is what he looked like when he got married.

In 1985 he was given the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievment by President Ronald Reagan. In 1986 he won Nobel Peace Prize. “ Do I have to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead; no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do- and at this moment more than ever. The presence of my parents, that of my little sister. The presence of my teachers, my friends, my companions…”

This is him when he is giving his speech part of his speech is to the left.

“ Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”