Category:Elie Wiesel - Wikimedia Commons (2024)

English: Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a writer, professor at Boston University, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)

Elie Wiesel en avril 2012.

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Name in native language

Elie Wiesel

Date of birth

30 September 1928
Sighetu Marmației (Maramureș County, Kingdom of Romania)
Eliezer Wiesel

Date of death

2 July 2016
New York City (United States of America)

Place of burial

Kensico Cemetery
Sharon Gardens Cemetery

Work period (start)

1956

Country of citizenship

United States of America (3, –2016)
Kingdom of Romania (1, 1928–1940)
Kingdom of Hungary (2, 1940–1944)

Educated at

Faculty of Arts of Paris

Occupation

writer
political activist
Judaic scholar
novelist
autobiographer
university teacher
translator
journalist
humanist
philosopher
playwright

Employer

Yedioth Ahronoth
Boston University
City University of New York

Member of

American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Native language

Yiddish

Father

Shlomo Wiesel

Mother

Sarah Feig

Child

Elisha Wiesel

Spouse

Marion Wiesel

Work location

Paris
New York City

Notable work

Night

Award received

Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Norman Mailer Prize (2011)
National Humanities Medal (2009)
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship
Freedom Award (1987)
Light of Truth Award (2005)
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2001)
Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania
honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
Prix Médicis (1968)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)
Congressional Gold Medal
Prix du Livre Inter (1980)
Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
Medal of Liberty
honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
honorary doctorate of Haifa University
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science
honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (1993)
honorary doctor of the University of Picardie Jules Verne (1995)
Bordin Prize (1972)
honorary citizen of Jerusalem (2015)
honorary doctor of the Florida Atlantic University (1997)
honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1988)
Great Immigrants Award (2007)
honorary degree from Spelman College (1995)
Honorary doctor of the Paris-Sorbonne University (2001)

Authority file

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SELIBR ID: 101852
National Library of Israel ID (old): 000141718
National Library of Spain ID: XX1721701
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 068376014
NORAF ID: 90057312
NUKAT ID: n94003587
NLP ID (old): a0000001185731
National Library of Korea ID: KAC199629972
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NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00211935
SBN author ID: CFIV003951
Open Library ID: OL20891A
Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren author ID: wies008
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IMDb ID: nm0927600
Internet Broadway Database person ID: 5346

Subcategories

This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

B

Birthplace of Elie Wiesel‎ (14 F)
Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp‎ (9 F)

S

Square du Temple – Elie-Wiesel‎ (39 F)

Media in category "Elie Wiesel"

The following 48 files are in this category, out of 48 total.

Elie Wiesel (1987) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg200 × 300; 16 KB
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Barack Obama at Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony 4-23-09.JPG525 × 350; 115 KB
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A convention of victims who survived the Holocaust in the Bergen Belzen concentration camp was held at the diaspora museum Beit Hatfutzot (FL45830233).jpg2,781 × 1,784; 2.99 MB
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Dalai Lama and Bush welcome Elie Wiesel (2007).jpg514 × 340; 70 KB
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Dr. Mashkevitch and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel.JPG2,078 × 1,460; 533 KB
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Elie Wiesel - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008.jpg550 × 368; 31 KB
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Elie Wiesel and Ronald Reagan 1982.jpg256 × 242; 34 KB
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