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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Unpublished Elie Wiesel manuscript has been found after a four-year search

On the 90th anniversary of the writer’s birth, a four-year search led to the discovery of a manuscript that has never been published.

A young Elie Wiesel

Learning from a legend

Ariel Burger details his own journey and his experiences working for Elie Wiesel in a new memoir.

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

A noble gesture

Wiesel wanted to cover the Adolf Eichmann trial, but the editor felt that as an Auschwitz survivor, the trial would be too personal for him and he would not be able to write with objectivity.

Elie Wiesel making a speech

In commemoration of Elie Wiesel, Jewish leaders gather in his hometown

The event included an interfaith dialogue between representatives of Romania's religious communities and Jewish leaders from Israel.

Left to right: Deputy Chair of March of the Living Aaron Tamir, Sighet Chief of Police, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, President of Limmud FSU Aaron G. Frenkel, Sighet Mayor Horia Vassily Scubli, Co-founder of Limmud FSU Chaim Chesler, and Chief Rabbi of Romania Rafael Schaeffer

NO HOLDS BARRED: Elie Wiesel’s 90th Birthday

September 30 would have been Elie’s 90 birthday. His Jewish birthday falls on the most festive day of the year, Simchat Torah, which we celebrated the next day.

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

The messengers at Schlangengasse

“Did you really live there?” I was just five years old, sitting on my father’s lap and enjoying the rhythms he tapped with two fingers on an electric typewriter.

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

Ben Kingsley: I carried a photo of Elie Wiesel on 'Operation Finale' set

Actor Nick Kroll said the film about the capture of Adolf Eichmann was a victory story 'rife with questions of morality.'

A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann

Elie Wiesel’s childhood home vandalized by antisemitic graffiti

The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and “Nazi Jew lying in hell with Hitler” as well as “Anti-Semite pedo

The Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Romania is covered in antisemitic graffiti

Elie Wiesel memorial plaque unveiled at Jerusalem Holocaust museum

"His words touched the very soul of the Jewish people."

A memorial plaque to Elie Wiesel is unveiled at the Jerusalem Chamber of Holocaust, July 2, 2018

The dirty secret of Syria: enabling the enablers

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A POSTER of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Suleimani.