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	Elie Wiesel - MSN Encarta
		Elie Wiesel, born in 1928, Jewish novelist, journalist, and lecturer, the most eloquent spokesperson for the survivors of the Nazi (see National Socialism) genocide during World War II (1939-1945).
		Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928.
		Wiesel’s wife, Marion, also a survivor of the Nazi camps, collaborates with her husband on English translations of his writings.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761579427 (461 words)

	Elie Wiesel Bio
		Elie Wiesel's statement, "...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..."stands as a succinct summary of his views on life and serves as the driving force of his work.
		Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide.
		Wiesel's job as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust was the planning of an American memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/HOLO/ELIEBIO.HTM (749 words)

	Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular . The Life and Work of Wiesel \| PBS
		Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, was born in the provincial town of Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928.
		Life for Wiesel and his extended family changed tragically in 1943 and 1944, when Nazi Germany decided that the Jews living in the Axis nations of Eastern Europe — Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria — should share the fate of the rest of European Jewry and be transported to the death camps of Poland.
		Wiesel has, since then, dedicated his life to ensuring that the murder of six million Jews would never be forgotten, and that other human beings would never be subjected to genocidal homicide.
	www.pbs.org /eliewiesel/life/index.html (737 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Elie Wiesel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928.
		Elie's mother's family was part of the Hasidic sect of Judaism, and Elie loved the mysticism and folk tales of the sect as a child.
		Elie lived in a French orphanage for a few years and in 1948 began to study literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_elie_wiesel.html (787 words)

	The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
		A devoted supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
		Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A Beggar in Jerusalem (Prix Médicis winner), The Testament (Prix Livre Inter winner), The Fifth Son (winner of the Grand Prize in Literature from the City of Paris), and two volumes of his memoirs.
	www.eliewieselfoundation.org /ElieWiesel/index.html (489 words)

	Elie Wiesel
		Elie (Eliezer) Wiesel is a novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner.
		Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Rumanian shtetl, on September 30, 1928.
		Wiesel, then 15, followed the instructions of a fellow prisoner and told the waiting SS officer that he was eighteen, a farmer and in good health.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Wiesel.html (1754 words)

	Amazon.com: Night: Books: Elie Wiesel,Stella Rodway,Francois Mauriac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family.
		Elie Wiesel survived years of torture, malnourishment, and dehumanizing conditions as he was forced to travel from one concentration camp to the next during the height of Nazi control.
		Wiesel describes the events vividly; going from a naive youngster to a hardened prisoner as he is sent from one camp to the next.
	www.amazon.com /Night-Elie-Wiesel/dp/0553272535 (2330 words)

	Elie Wiesel Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Elie Wiesel (born 1928), a survivor of the Holocaust, is a writer, orator, teacher and chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
		Wiesel captured the spiritual reawakening that was to mark the struggle of Soviet Jewry during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Conversations with Elie Wiesel, in which Wiesel addresses such issues as the moral responsibility of individuals and governments, the anatomy of hate, the threat of technology, capital punishment, and the need for historical memory, appeared in 2001.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/elie-wiesel (1454 words)

	Night Book Notes Summary by Elie Wiesel: Author/Context
		Eliezar (Elie) Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, a border town between Hungary and Romania.
		Wiesel grew up in the town's shtetl, or Jewish section, where his father, Shlomo, was a shopkeeper and a well-respected leader in the Jewish community.
		As a young boy, Wiesel was devoted to the study of the Torah, the Talmud, and the mystical writings of the Kabbala.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/nit/BIO.htm (523 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Judges: a Novel: Books: Elie Wiesel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wiesel moves the battle for the human soul from the Holocaust to the rarefied setting of a Connecticut parlor.
		Wiesel is obviously closest to Razziel, whose past experiences in a Romanian prison and interest in mysticism mirror, in lightly fictionalized form, factors in Wiesels own life.
		Wiesel was trying to get the reader to "get" more out of the characters than the way the characters ended up in the cabin.
	www.amazon.ca /Judges-Novel-Elie-Wiesel/dp/0805211217 (1410 words)

	Elie Wiesel Poet Poetry Picture Bio
		Elie Wiesel was described by the Nobel Committee in 1986 as “a messenger to mankind,” whose “message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity.”
		Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, now a part of Romania.
		A devoted supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Argentina’s Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine in Africa, victims of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.
	www.thehypertexts.com /Elie_Wiesel_Poet_Poetry_Picture_Bio.htm (1935 words)

	Elie Wiesel Speech The Perils of Indifference
		Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
		In the summer of 1944, as a teenager in Hungary, Elie Wiesel, along with his father, mother and sisters, were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz extermination camp in occupied Poland.
		In January 1945, as the Russian Army drew near, Wiesel and his father were hurriedly evacuated from Auschwitz by a forced march to Gleiwitz and then via an open train car to Buchenwald in Germany, where his father, mother, and a younger sister eventually died.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/wiesel.htm (1798 words)

	Jewish-American Hall of Fame -- Virtual Tour
		Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, a small town in Rumania.
		Wiesel's mother and younger sister died in the gas chambers, and his father died later on a forced march to Buchenwald.
		In 1978, Elie Wiesel was named chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, created by President Jimmy Carter, which eventually led to the building of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
	www.amuseum.org /jahf/virtour/page32.html (403 words)

	Elie Wiesel
		In 1969 Wiesel married Marion Erster Rose, a survivor of the German concentration camps.
		In 1992 Wiesel was invited by presidents Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Milosevic of Serbia, to observe the war ravaged cities.
		Although Wiesel yearned to be a writer after the war, he could not gather the courage to recount what he had witnessed in the concentration camps.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wiesel.htm (1589 words)

	Elie Wiesel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elie did not learn that his two older sisters were alive until after the war.
		In 1986, Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in improving the living conditions, and promoting the understanding and global acceptance of Jews.
		Wiesel was presented with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1992.
	www.neco.org /awards/recipients/e.wiesel.html (426 words)

	Night by Elie Wiesel
		Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobel laureate, and spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his life to bearing witness for the Holocaust’s martyrs and survivors found its earliest and most enduring voice in Night, his penetrating and profound account of the Nazi death camps.
		Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
		Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction.
	www.nightthebook.com /abouteliewiesel.htm (175 words)

	Elie Wiesel - Biography
		Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania.
		In his many lectures, Wiesel has concerned himself with the situation of the Jews and other groups who have suffered persecution and death because of their religion, race or national origin.
		Wiesel has made his home in New York City, and is now a United States citizen.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-bio.html (342 words)

	Elie Wiesel's 'Night' A Fraud? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wiesel made things up, in a way that his many subsequent detractors could identify as not untypical of his modus operandi: grasping with deft assurance what people important to his future would want to hear and, by the same token, would not want to hear.
		Wiesel got the prize because he elevated himself as the spokesman for the survivors.
		"Wiesel's is the most read of all Auschwitz memoirs", Hilberg remarked, "not only because of its brevity but because it has something mystic, surrealistic in it." He mentioned the episode of the little boy playing the violin, and said how it evoked images from the Russian-Jewish mystic painter Chagall, also of Fiddler on the Roof.
	www.rense.com /general70/elie.htm (6806 words)

	Bold Type: Elie Wiesel
		Wiesel's prominence as a writer, speaker, and (sometimes reluctant) head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council has required him to voice his disgust when political expediencies take precedence over moral imperatives.
		When Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, having also been in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna, and having lost his parents and sister during his stay in the camps, he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before he would attempt to write about what he saw and experienced there.
		In this issue of Bold Type, Elie Wiesel offers an interview, an excerpt from the book, and also a passage from the first volume of his memoirs, All Rivers Run to the Sea.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1299/wiesel (454 words)

	Elie Wiesel Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Elie Wiesel was born in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania, where people of different languages and religions have lived side by side for centuries, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in bitter conflict.
		Wiesel mastered the French language and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, while supporting himself as a choir master and teacher of Hebrew.
		Wiesel compressed the work into a 127-page French adaptation, La Nuit (Night), but several years passed before he was able to find a publisher for the French or English versions of the work.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/wie0bio-1 (1037 words)

	The My Hero Project - Elie Wiesel
		Wiesel has written many books about the events that occurred in a way that makes you actually feel like you are right there with him.
		Wiesel is my hero because he has dedicated his life to being a great humanitarian.
		Elie Wiesel contributed his hero story to MY HERO: Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=ewiesel (1134 words)

	Elie Wiesel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiesel was born in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel.
		Wiesel had skill which he used to perfection, Un di velt hot geshvign, in Yiddish, which was published in Buenos Aires.
		In 1993, Elie Wiesel and President Clinton lit the eternal flame in the memorial's Hall of Remembrance during the opening dedication ceremony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elie_Wiesel (1924 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust with his faith intact, unafraid to question God.
		Elie Wiesel was invited to Snow College in Utah in late May to give a lecture that I facilitated with my dear friend, Michael Benson, the president there, whose grandfather served as the leader and Prophet of the worldwide Mormon Church until 1994.
		Wiesel stood as the face of the greatest tragedy, while he boldly and hauntingly tackled the appropriateness of pardoning one’s tormentors.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/192/story_19236_1.html (430 words)

	Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
		Elie Wiesel's autobiography Night continues to be one of the most widely read Holocaust books for high school students.
		At this point in the book, Elie Wiesel and his family were being shipped out of the little ghetto in cattle cars; 80 people were packed in each car for days without food or water.
		The way that Elie Wiesel writes about this scene makes it sound as if the Jews were going on a nice vacation, but in reality, they were headed for their deaths at Auschwitz.
	www.iearn.org /hgp/aeti/1995-wiesels-night.html (1931 words)

	Elie Wiesel on War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition(11.6.03)
		Elie Wiesel has devoted himself to eradicating hate, defending human rights and pursuing peace.
		Professor Wiesel's more than 40 books have won many awards, including the Prix Médicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem, the Prix Livre Inter for The Testament and the Grand Prize for Literature from the city of Paris for The Fifth Son.
		Professor Wiesel's Night, his account of what he endured as an inmate in the death camps, has been translated into 25 languages since its publication in 1958.
	www.92y.org /content/elie_wiesel_november_2003.asp (677 words)

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