Elie Wiesel is dead – TVN24

Photo: Veni / Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Elie Wiesel was 87 years

Former prisoner of the German concentration camp Auschwitz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, died Saturday at the age of 87. He was one of the most famous Jewish writers and creator of the term Holocaust.

As reported in the Israeli media on Saturday, Wiesel died at the age of 87 in New York.

He was born in the Romanian city of sighetu marmaţiei in 1928 in a family of orthodox Hasidim. In 1944, together with his family was deported to a German concentration camp Auschwitz. With his father were sent to Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Then they were transported to the camp in Buchenwald.
After the war he studied at the Sorbonne. In France, he began work as a journalist.

A writer, journalist, activist

In 1956, he moved to the United States. He involved in the commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. He was the originator of the term “Holocaust”. In 1963, he became an American citizen.

In 1980-1986 he was chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. He initiated the construction of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. In 2005. He was awarded the medal “Dignitas Humana Award “.

last year, received an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow.

he also received honorary doctorates from many universities around the world. the award prize Eagle Jan Karski for” lesson, how to recognize the absolute evil of the Holocaust “. He is also a knight of the French Legion of Honour.

the Holocaust of the Jewish people devoted much of his work. the most famous of these was the” Night “of 1958. He described it as their experience of the camps destruction.

for his involvement in the fight against violence, prejudice and racism Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Author: TMW / kk / Source: Der Spiegel

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