BORN

• September 30th, 1928
• Born in Sighet Transylvania
• Grew up with 3 sisters very religious
• Was attacked but never died
• He is still alive and goes back to concentration camps to visit

EARLY LIFE

• Had 3 siblings- Hilda, beatnce, tzipora
• Mother and father- Sarah & shlomo
• 2 kids survived war, 1 died
• His family spoke Yiddish most of time
• German, Hungarian and Romanian languages spoken

WORD WAR 2

• Wiesel and father sent to attack camp
• Remained with father for 8 months
• Hard weather, shuffled among 3 concentrations camps
• January 29th, 1945 his father was beaten by nazis
• Father suffered very badly of exhaustion

ELIE WIESEL IN HOLOCAST

• Survived the holocast as he watched millions of other people die
• People were told they were going to shower, were really going into gas chambers
• Cut their hair off so they wouldn't be able to tell who was who
• Squished in trains with dead bodies laying everywhere
• Babies thrown up and shot

AFTER THE WAR

• Wiesel taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster
• Wiesel refused to write about his experiences during holocast
• Got persuaded to write about experiences
• Payed a $100 pro-forma advance
• Book sold 1,046 copies over the last next 18 months

LIFE IN UNITED STATES

• 1955 he moved to New York being a us citizen he was forced to stay
• Wiesel wrote over 40 books in the us
• Awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1986
• Published the two volumes of his memories
• Became a popular speaker on the subject of the holocast

RECENT

• 2006 he traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey
• 2007 awarded the lifetime achievement award
• Is a member of international advisory board
• Participated in conference at the upper house chamber
• Wrote a long, meaningful letter

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Jewish heritage- 1975
• Grand prize in literature- 1983
• Medal of liberty- 1986
• Grand officer- 1990
• Star of Romania- 2002

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Man of year- 2005
• Light of truth- 2005
• Honorary visiting professor- 2008
• Nadav award- 2012
• Greatest public service- 2013

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