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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The U.S. Holocaust Museum vs. Elie Wiesel

It’s all too easy to make excuses for why governments fail to act against genocide.

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

Holocaust reading for post-millenials

Essential books to help Jewish young people be Shoah-literate.

Two boys hug in front of the main railway building of the former Nazi death camp Birkenau (Auschwitz II) during the 'March of the Living' in Oswiecim, Poland

Poland-Israel meltdown demands Elisha Wiesel

As the only son of the world’s most famous Holocaust survivor, Elisha Wiesel has unequaled credibility in representing the Jewish community.

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

Sharansky’s debt of gratitude to Elie Wiesel

In a room filled with attendees from the former Soviet Union, it was Sharansky’s words about Wiesel that people came to hear.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel

Media spotlight: Confronting buried demons

Over the past month, women and men around the globe have been speaking out about assault and harassment they suffered in the past. Some have brought up events from decades ago.

Tommy Lapid at the Eichman trial in 1961.

Reporter's notebook: Walking in the footsteps of a giant

Last Sunday evening, some 1,500 people marched in Sighet, Romania in memory of Elie Wiesel.

Ceremony in the memory of Elie Wiesel, September 10, 2017.

Fighting for the three million

Saving the Jews of the Soviet Union and bringing them to freedom, especially to Israel, was, for Elie Wiesel, the most important mission of his life.

UNCHAINING THE people. ‘Elie Wiesel’s conclusion was that the Jewish people throughout the world had to mobilize in a united campaign to save the Jewish soul of the three million Jews who were still in the USSR.’

Donner une âme à la culture francophone israélienne

Avec un texte d’Elie Wiesel, Steve Kalfa nous entraîne dans les méandres des grands événements contemporains de l’histoire du peuple Juif, pour un voyage qui nous invite au questionnement

Steve Kalfa a adapté au théâtre l'un des ouvrages d'Elie Wiesel

Congressional bill named for Elie Wiesel aims to stop genocides

The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2017 introduced Thursday serves to improve US efforts to prevent major casualties overseas.

Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel

Looking back, and forward

Shlomo Maital recalls five decades of living in Israel since making aliya right after the Six Day War and looks ahead to what’s in store for the country over the next 50 years.

Art by Avi Katz