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-'''Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel''' was born September 30, 1928, 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]].
-He received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986 for his various [[humanitarian]] works.
-== Death Camp Experience ==
-Wiesel's first book, "Night", records his experience, the experience of all of the Jews sent to the camps:
-<blockquote>
-''Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
-Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.
-Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.''
-</blockquote>
-== Quotes ==
-"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
-{{DEFAULTSORT: Wiesel, Elie}}
-[[Category: Authors]]
-[[Category:Nobel laureates in Peace]]

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