Elie Wiesel

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.