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Elie Wiesel, born in 1928. A Holocaust survivor. Wiesel earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his writings about his World War II experiences and his lifelong humanitarian efforts to prevent similar atrocities from occurring anywhere else in the world. In 1944, young Elie and his family were shipped off to a concentration camp in Poland. Wiesel would never see his mother or youngest sister again. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, a concentration camp in Germany, where his father died of starvation and dysentery just days before the camp was freed by the Allies.

After World War II, Wiesel studied in France and later became a journalist. Ten years after the war, Wiesel told his story in an 800-page manuscript in Yiddish. A condensed, French-language version of his story, was published in 1958, followed by the English translation, "Night", two years later. Night has since been translated into more than thirty languages. An American citizen since 1963, Wiesel lives in New York with his wife & son.