ELIE WIESEL

THE WISEL FAMILY

• He had 2 older sisters and 1 younger sister.
• His mother was Sarah Feig and his father was Chlomo Wiesel
• The mother was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrity we'll known during that time.
• Elie had a child named Shlomo
• His three sisters names are Tzipora, Hilda, Beatrice Wiesel.

AWARDS WIESEL WON

• Nobel Peace Prize
• Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Congressional Gold Medal
• Legion on Honour.
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize

FACTS ABOUT HIM

• Sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944
• He spoke German, Hungarian, Romaninan, and Yiddish.
• In 1978 appointed chair of the President's Commission on the Holocaust
• He is an author who wrote a total of 57 books.
• He was born on September 30th, 1928 (85 years old)

WHAT HES UP TO NOW

• 2006, he visited Oprah Winfrey
• Received the Dayton literacy peace prize in 2007
• A member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor
• 2009, he accompanied the president Obama as they toured Buchenwald
• Nov.2011, he accepted to the Board of Visitors of Ralston College

THE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY.

THE THINGS THAT INFLUENCED HIM

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Wiki-answers.com/Q/what_awards_did_elie_wiesel_achieve
• En.wikipedia.org.org/wiki/elie_wiesel
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elie_Wiesel_2012_Shankbone.JPG
• Biography.com/people/elie-Wiesel-9530714
• Done by: Billie, Shankia, Jurell, Jasmine, & Hailey!!!