'''Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel''' was born September 30, 1928, in [[Romania]]. Wiesel is the author of 36 books 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 camps; 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 began to study in [[Paris]] at the [[Sorbonne]]. | '''Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel''' was born September 30, 1928, in [[Romania]]. Wiesel is the author of 36 books 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 camps; 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 began to study in [[Paris]] at the [[Sorbonne]]. |