Farewell To Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel

I read Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, Night, when it was selected by Oprah’s Book Club in 2006. The book is a detailed memoir of his experiences as a teenager in Auschwitz. It is one of the most widely read and discussed books of our time.
 
Elie Wiesel spent decades advocating for human rights, and authored 57 books about the subject. When he wrote about his guilt for having survived the Holocaust, it raised awareness about the horror of the Nazi movement at a time when people did not want to talk about it.
 
Elie Wiesel was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in speaking out against violence. He has also been awarded over 100 honorary doctorate degrees.
 
President Obama led the tributes by saying, “Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world. He raised his voice, not just against antisemitism but against hatred, bigotry and intolerance in all its forms.”
 
You can learn more about Elie Wiesel in this 1993 interview with Oprah. He was an amazing human being.