ELLIE WIESEL

CHILDHOOD

• Sighet, Romania
• 4 member family
• Had it rough
• Sent to concentration camps ( Auschwitz & Buchenwald )
• Watch whole family die in different situations

AFTER WWII

• France 1948-1951 lived after being liberated
• Wrote for French and Israeli Newspapers
• Context about Holocaust/life experiences

CURRENT STATUS

• Citizen of United States of America
• Professor/writer at boston University
• Teaches history and current events
• Lectures about Jews and his experineces

KNOWN FOR

• Noble Peace Prize
• 1986
• Dedicated life to telling people about what happened to him
• Also as much as possible about the Holocaust