Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. He wrote his memoir La Nuit or Night. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust; In 1980 he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the Founding President of the Paris based Universal Academy of Cultures.

Elie Wiesel also defended the cause of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Argentina’s Desaparecidos, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine in Africa, victims of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia.

In 1976, he became the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. Wiesel passed away in New York City July 2nd, 2016.

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creatorOf Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Office files, of The American Poetry Review, 1977. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
referencedIn Duke University. Auxiliary Services. Media Services. Media Services audio and video recordings, 1963-2005. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn Sallyann Sack Papers, undated, 1962-1972, 1978-2007 American Jewish Historical Society
referencedIn Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001. Robert McAfee Brown Collection, 1925-2005. Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library
creatorOf ʻAruts 7. Eli Ṿizel. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
referencedIn New York Times Company records. A.M. Rosenthal papers, 1955-1994, 1967-1986 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Stanley Burnshaw Papers TXRC93-A78., 1927-1987, (bulk 1945-1987) Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Jewish Media Mass Mailing Files, 1977–1981 Jimmy Carter Library
referencedIn Presidential Photographs, 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017 Barack H. Obama Library
referencedIn Salvador E. Luria Papers, 1923-1992 American Philosophical Society
referencedIn Evans, Eli N. Eli N. Evans papers, 1965-2008. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
referencedIn Decter, Midge. Typewritten letter signed, dated New York, N.Y., 2 January 1996, to Joan Peyser, 1996 Jan. 2. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration). 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. Video Recordings Ronald Reagan Library
referencedIn Thompson, Thomas R., 1956-. Modernity, postmodernity, and the future of hope : seeking a just(ified) humanity: Elie Wiesel, Jürgen Moltmann and the anthropodicity of hope / Thomas R. Thompson. Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology
referencedIn Ira Berkow, papers, undated, 1960-2011 American Jewish Historical Society
referencedIn Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971. Bennett Cerf papers, ca. 1898-1977. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn Papers of Brother Francis Blouin, FIC, 1971-1993, 1971-2003, 1971-1993 Walsh University Library
referencedIn Adams, Eddie, 1933-2004. Adams, Eddie, photographic archive, 1950-2004. University of Texas Libraries
referencedIn University of Connecticut, Center for Oral History Interviews Collection, undated, 1967-2008. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Elaine Pittell Papers, undated, 1974-1991, 1993, 1994, bulk 1975-1988 American Jewish Historical Society
referencedIn Carter White House Photographs Collection. 1/20/1977 - 1/22/1981. Carter White House Photographs: Presidential Jimmy Carter Library
referencedIn Photographs Relating to the Clinton Administration, 1/20/1993 - 1/20/2001 William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
referencedIn Tenenbaum, Joseph. Dr. Joseph and Sheila Tenenbaum collection Records relating to organizations. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
referencedIn Bayard Rustin Papers, 1942-1987, (bulk 1963-1980) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities, 1982–1999 National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk). Houghton Library
referencedIn Kaplan, Louis L. (Louis Lionel), 1902-. Louis L. Kaplan papers, 1854-1994 and undated. Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library
creatorOf Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. All rivers run to the sea : memoirs / Elie Wiesel [manuscript], 1995. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn United States Holocaust Memorial Council. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection of liberator testimonies testimonies. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
referencedIn Des Moines Holocaust Survivors Project. Des Moines Holocaust Survivors Project records, 1983-1998. State Historical Society of Iowa, Library
referencedIn Barnard College. Barnard College video collection 1890- [videorecording]. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn US Holocaust Memorial Council. American Gathering Conference collection Romania A-Z testimonies. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
referencedIn University of Michigan. News and Information Services. Faculty and Staff Files, 1944-2005 (bulk 1960-1995) Bentley Historical Library
creatorOf Bound signature books for citations for recipients fo honours given at Convocation, 1994-1999. University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library
creatorOf Dinerstein, Norman Myron. Zalmen, or, The madness of God : 1975 / Norman Dinerstein. University of Cincinnati - Main Campus, Langsam Library
referencedIn Marguerite Yourcenar additional papers, 1842-1996. Houghton Library
referencedIn Records of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) (Reagan Administration). 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. Presidential Audio Recordings Ronald Reagan Library
referencedIn Presidential Papers of H. Trevor Colbourn, 1948-2006 Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries,
referencedIn White House Photographic Collection. 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989. Reagan White House Photographs Ronald Reagan Library
referencedIn Audio Recordings Relating to William J. Clinton, January 20, 1993–January 20, 2001 William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
referencedIn Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-. Papers, ca. 1920-1999, ca. 1945-1997 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Records of the Office of Speechwriting (Clinton Administration), 1993 - 2001. Alison (Lissa) Muscatine's Files, 1993 - 1997 William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
referencedIn Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907-1973,. Creative writing questionnaires for writing class at University of Pennsylvania, 1970-1972. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Adams, Eddie, Photographic Archive 2009-109; 2009-198; 2009-260; 2009-369; 2010-179; 2010-300; 2010-339; 2011-314; 2011-365., ca. 1950-2004 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Hauptman, Robert, 1941-. Robert Hauptman correspondence, 1973-2004. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn Marcou, David J. David Joseph Marcou papers and photographs, 1968-2008. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Public Programs Files, 1959–2018 Harry S. Truman Library
referencedIn Sound Recordings of Radio Programs, Speeches, and Special Events, 1984–2000 National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Audio and video tapes and records, [ca. 1930-1985] New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Photographs Related to the George W. Bush Administration, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009 George W. Bush Library
referencedIn Marton, Bernard Dov, 1909-1990. Bernard Dov Marton Papers, 1914-1991, 1998 1932-1970. Yeshiva University
referencedIn American Jewish University photograph collection, 1947-2007 (bulk 1947-1999) American Jewish University
referencedIn Harvard Law School Forums Records Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Gottschalk, Alfred. Papers, 1957-1996. The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
creatorOf Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Correspondence Chaim Potok, 1976-1994. University of Pennsylvania Library
referencedIn Meyer Greenberg Papers, undated, 1936-1978 American Jewish Historical Society
creatorOf Burnshaw, Stanley, 1906-2005. Papers, 1927-1987, (bulk 1945-1987). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Student Struggle for Soviet Jerwy records 1956-2006 1964-1991. Yeshiva University
referencedIn Ronald Sanders papers, 1951-1994 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Marguerite Yourcenar papers, 1920-1986. Houghton Library
referencedIn University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Records, undated, 1965- Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Arthur A. Cohen papers, 1941-1988 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Sanders, Ronald, d. 1991. Ronald Sanders papers, 1951-1994. New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Elie Wiesel collection, 1940s-2000. Boston University. School of Medicine
referencedIn Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996 Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Bennett Cerf Papers, ca. 1898-1977. Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn Luria, S. E. (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991. Papers, 1931-1992. American Philosophical Society Library
referencedIn Cobb, Mary B., 1925-. Mary Cobb Collection, 1968-2003. The Filson Historical Society
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