Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dies at 87

Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor and activist. Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, he was deported with his family to Auschwitz in 1944.

He survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald and wrote about the Holocaust in Night (1956), one of the most widely read memoirs. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and was founding chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal. Wiesel died in New York City on July 2, 2016, at age 87.

Achievements: Nobel Peace Prize (1986), Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Birth: September 30, 1928 - Sighet, Romania.

Profession: Author and professor.

Interesting Facts: He wrote Night.