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| − | [[Image:Elie_Wiesel.jpg|right|thumb|Elie Wiesel, 2006]] | + | [[File:Elie_Wiesel.jpg|right|thumb|Elie Wiesel, 2006]] |
| − | '''Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel''' (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was born in [[Romania]]. Wiesel is the [[author]] of 36 [[book]]s dealing with [[Judaism]], the [[Holocaust]], and the [[moral]] [[responsibility]] of all people to fight [[hatred]], [[racism]] and [[genocide]]. He survived being in the most dreaded of the [[concentration camp]]s; [[Auschwitz]], [[Buna]], [[Buchenwald]] and [[Gleiwitz]]. After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a [[French]] orphanage and in 1948 was admitted and began to study at the [[Sorbonne]]. | + | '''Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel''' (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was born in [[Romania]]. Wiesel is the [[author]] of 36 [[book]]s dealing with [[Judaism]], the [[Holocaust]], and the [[moral]] [[responsibility]] of all people to fight [[hatred]], [[racism]] and [[genocide]]. He survived being in the most dreaded of the [[concentration camp]]s; [[Auschwitz]], [[Buna]], [[Buchenwald]] and [[Gleiwitz]]. After the liberation of the camps in April 1945, Wiesel spent a few years in a [[French]] orphanage and in 1948 was admitted and began to study at the [[Sorbonne]]. |
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| | He received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986 for his various [[humanitarian]] works. | | He received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986 for his various [[humanitarian]] works. |
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| − | == Death Camp Experience == | + | ==Death camp experience== |
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| | Wiesel's first book, "Night", records his experience, the experience of all of the Jews sent to the camps: | | Wiesel's first book, "Night", records his experience, the experience of all of the Jews sent to the camps: |
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| | </blockquote> | | </blockquote> |
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| − | == Quotes == | + | ==Quotes== |
| | + | "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference." |
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| − | "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
| + | ==References== |
| | + | {{reflist}} |
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| | {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiesel, Elie}} | | {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiesel, Elie}} |