Elie Wiesel
Birthday
1928/09/30
Day of death
2016/07/02 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sighet, Transylvania, Kingdom of Romania [now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures, Romania]
Also know as
Eliezer Wiesel
Biography
Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel, Yiddish: אליעזר װיזעל Eliezer Vizel; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Je...Read more
Acting
(2007) Sand and Sorrow
as Self
(2002) Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular
as Self
(2001) Tibet's Stolen Child
as Self
(1967) Sighet, Sighet
as Self
(1986) Elie Wiesel. Im Zeichen des Feuers
as Self
(1996) Elie Wiesel Goes Home
as Self
(2023) The Shoshani Riddle
as Self
(2006) A Special Presentation Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz Death Camp
as Self
(2022) A History of Antisemitism
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
(1975) Apostrophes
as Self
(1987) Matin Bonheur
as Self
(1998) Vivement dimanche
as Self
(2024) Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
as Self (archive footage)