Elie Wiesel collection, 1940s-2000.

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Elie Wiesel collection, 1940s-2000.

Manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, personal memorabilia, research material, video, audiotapes, and subject files.

20 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8059308

Boston University. School of Medicine

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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 El...