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Professor Ingrid Anderson reflects on studying under and later teaching the work of Elie Wiesel, and his lessons that trauma can transform into "a valuable tool in the fight for justice." When I teach a course on the work of Elie Wiesel, I don’t teach ...

Author, educator and humanitarian Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and was deported to Auschwitz with his family as a teenager. Upon his liberation, he migrated to France before moving to New York, and ended up writing 57 books in his lifetime. He won the ...

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most influential writers to emerge from the Holocaust, drawing deeply on his own experiences in two Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Shaped by both the physical suffering he endured and the devastating loss of family members, ...

In "Night," Elie Wiesel recounts a memory of witnessing three victims, one of them a child, being hung to their deaths in public.

Before meeting his wife Marion, Elie Wiesel "shunned love" and didn't see himself having children. Marion convinced him, and after their son Elisha was born, Wiesel became more religious.

Elie Wiesel vowed to always speak up whenever people were enduring suffering and humiliation, including in both Palestine and the former Yugoslavia. "He saw the trauma as something that has to lead to moral action."

After Elie Wiesel was freed from the concentration camp at Buchenwald, he ended up in a children's rehab center in France. His sister recognized his photo in a story about the rehab center and the two were reunited.

Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a journalist in France before immigrating to America. Over the course of his life, Wiesel fought the “sin ...

Ahead of his 100th birthday, celebrate the life and career of legendary actor Dick Van Dyke. Known for iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and his classic CBS sitcom, he has delighted audiences on screen and stage for eight decades.

This version contains extended audio description. Ahead of his 100th birthday, celebrate the life and career of legendary actor Dick Van Dyke. Known for iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and his classic CBS sitcom, he has delighted audiences on screen and ...