Elie Wiesel

Amplifying Elie Wiesel’s moral voice: We cannot be silent onlookers

We cannot accept injustice and the suffering of others as any kind of norm.

Elie Wiesel stands in front of a photo of himself (bottom right-hand corner) and other inmates taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, during his 1986 visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
The United States Postal Service released a new series of stamps in honor of Elie Wiesel.

New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel arrives with wife, Marion Erster Rose, to attend the "100 Most Influential People In The World" gala hosted by Time Magazine in New York

Marion Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, translator, wife of Elie Wiesel, dies at 94

 Sultan Saladin of Egypt and Syria.

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Hungary's Viktor Orbán is not antisemitic - opinion

It was an Orbán government that established the Memorial Day for the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust and founded the Holocaust Museum.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is greeted on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 18, 2018

Children of the Holocaust: The last remnant - opinion

Elie Wiesel's death in July 2016 is the beginning of the end of the eyewitnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust

 ELIE WIESEL speaks at the first ‘Facing Tomorrow’ Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, 2008

My father Elie Wiesel would have been ashamed of Beijing Olympics

Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of “peace and friendship” while simultaneously terrorizing its Uyghur minority.

Demonstrators hold signs and Tibetan flags during a protest against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in front of the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany, February 4, 2022.

Elie Wiesel's son criticizes Chinese government for human rights abuses

Elisha Wiesel gave this speech in light of the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympics and asked if the UN, under its obligation of the Genocide Convention, will investigate the situation in Xinjiang.

Elisha Wiesel (photo credit: USHMM/WASHINGTON DC)

BU's Elie Wiesel Center mocks the Holocaust - opinion

Associating Wiesel’s name with a lying anti-Zionist is like giving Donald Trump a Martin Luther King bridge-building award.

ELIE WIESEL at a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2015.

Elie Wiesel’s son: It's time for Jews to speak up for themselves

"Once again, too many of us have shamefully become the Jews of Silence. We have spoken up for every cause but our own."

Elisha Wiesel (photo credit: USHMM/WASHINGTON DC)

Elie Wiesel, and the Holocaust in Jewish Literature

The Holocaust as part of the life stories of ‘wise men.’

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel participates in a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill in 2015

Netanyahu, Clinton, Clooney celebrated Elie Wiesel's wife 90th birthday

To honor her living legacy and visionary work alongside her husbands, a virtual event was organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and the WIZO.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel arrives with wife, Marion Erster Rose, to attend the "100 Most Influential People In The World" gala hosted by Time Magazine in New York

A long-lost Elie Wiesel poem - A serendipitous literary finding

After his initial discovery of the long-lost poem, Mechael Pomeranz “contacted the Wiesel family agent with my ideas to highlight the poem.

BOOKSTORE OWNER Mechael Pomeranz, student of Elie Wiesel.

Elie Wiesel and Israeli writers

Despite knowing almost all the top authors in the world, the Nobel laureate’s greatest preference was for the Hebrew ones

Elie Wiesel participates in a discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 2, 2015